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Torque with Horn-Like Projections (Two Fragments)

Date

10th–9th century B.C.

Medium

Gold

Culture

Halstatt

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

Two torques with hornlike projections a 90 degree angles. The horns are hollow and taper from thick bases, curving gently to a conical finial. The flat part is decorated with stippling. Repousee circles run around the perimeter of the elliptical sheet and are surrounded by stippled dots arranged in scroll patterns. Stippling also appears around the border. A spine of thicker gold runs from the horn, lengthwise and is decorated in a herringbone pattern. Where this terminates, the gold is twisted and curved, resembling a wreath. .2 preserves much more of this last element than .1. The horn of .1 has been repaired. There is a small chunk missing from the body of .2.

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