This gold earring has three components from top to bottom:
A hoop.
A stud consisting of a thin disc with a tiny central gemstone and a raised, intricately wrought periphery.
A dangle shaped as an inverted pin and connected with the stud through the upper ring of a clover-shaped pattern.
Provenance: ?
Era: Roman.
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).
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