AN IMPORTANT GOLD BASKET-SHAPED EARRING OF TROY TYPE, 2200 B.C., NORTH-WEST ANATOLIA The body made of wires looped and soldered together to form a basket shape, the central element at the front extending to form the rounded hoop, the front of the

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AN IMPORTANT GOLD BASKET-SHAPED EARRING OF TROY TYPE,
2200 B.C., NORTH-WEST ANATOLIA
The body made of wires looped and soldered together to form a basket shape, the central element at the front extending to form the rounded hoop, the front of the earring decorated along the top with two horizontal rows of seven appliqué rosettes made of flat discs decorated with incisions around the edge and with small pellets soldered in the centre; below the basket are two suspension plates, the front one with seven rings from which hang short loop-in-loop chains ending in single leaves with a vertical central rib, the rear suspension plate has five rings from which hang long loop-in-loop chains with bifurcated or double-leaves attached along their lengths (nine leaves along central chain, ten leaves along the remaining four chains)
3 in. (7.6 cm.) long overall; basket 1/2 in. (1.2 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Cf. I. Antonova, V. Tolstikov and M. Treister with D. Easton, The Gold of Troy: searching for Homer's Fabled City, London, 1966 particularly pp. 48-52, nos. 13-16 and p. 136, no. 55. An almost identical earrings to the above can be found in the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany. Cf. also, pendants in A. Pasinili, Istanbul Archaeological Museums, Turkey, 1989, p. 80, inv. no. 676A-B. For a full discussion of the type, cf. K. R. Maxwell-Hyslop, Western Asiatic Jewellery, circa 3000-612 B.C., London, 1971, p. 48ff, and p. 60ff., fig. 32, pls. 39-44; also, R. Higgins, Greek and Roman Jewellery, 2nd Edition, California, 1980, p. 47ff' amd G. F. Bass n Epedition, 8, 1966 and American Journal of Archaeology, 74, 1970, p. 335ff., pls. 85-86 where he discusses a hoard of jewellery from the Troad containing similar basket earrings, now in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.

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