Pendant earring
Date650-475 BCE
Periodlate Archaic
CultureCypriot
MediumSilver
ClassificationMetalwork
ProvenanceFound by Luigi Palma di Cesnola (American Consul to Cyprus, 1865–1876); purchased by subscription by the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1874–1876; (sale, the Anderson Galleries, New York), April 20, 1928; purchased by John Ringling; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936-present.
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.3325
Earrings with a round-bottomed, cone-shaped pendant were popular in the Cypro-Archaic period. Sometimes earrings attached through piercings in the ear were worn together with ear caps placed over the top edge of the ear.
On View
Not on viewWeight: .007 pounds (3 gm)
Height: 1 1/4 in. (3.22 cm)
Width: 11/16 in. (1.79 cm)
Thickness: 1/4 in. (0.57 cm)
Hoop
Height (interior): 15/16 in. (2.38 cm)
Width (interior, max): 7/16 in. (1.15 cm)
Wire
Diameter: 1/8 in. (0.18 to 0.37 cm)
Length (if uncurved): 3 1/8 in. (ca. 8 cm)
Pendant attachment
Diameter: 1/8 in. (0.37 cm)
Medium Details
Color (Munsell soil color chart)
n/a
Inclusions
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650-475 BCE
1650-1050 BCE
6th - 5th century BCE
650-475 BCE
475-310 BCE
4th–3rd century BCE
475–310 BCE
6th-5th century BCE
600-400 BCE