An Ancient Drop Earring VI

 

This gold earring features a rather complex design combining a framed square gemstone, a hoop, a horizontal base, and two dangles. The dangle consists, from top to bottom, of two small interlocked rings, a coil, and a thin wire in the shape of an inverted T. 

Provenance: ?
Era: 3rd century CE.
Collection of the National Museum of Damascus. 

Bašīr Zuhdī. Lamḥā ʿan al-ḥilī al-ḏahabīyyā al-qadīmā wa rawaʾiʿihā fi al-matḥaf al-waṭanī bi Dimašq. Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes XIII 1963 (pp. 71-98).