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Earring

Date

5th century B.C.

Medium

Bronze and gold

Culture

Greek

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

One of a pair of spiral earrings fashioned as an elongated coil (one and a half turns) of gold foil over a copper alloy core. At both ends are elaborate piriform terminals with beaded wire tongues and a single grain at the apex, with a corrugated sheet collar. In some places the gold has worn away, exposing the copper beneath.

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