Earrings (100 BCE–100 CE): Art, History and Details

Earrings (100 BCE–100 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Each of these earrings is formed from a simple hoop that ends in a hook-and-loop closure. An oval garnet is fixed below the loop on each earring; one earring has a much larger garnet, and a small ball affixed above the setting. The lower portion of each earring is decorated with two parallel rows of granules.

Object facts

• Title: Earrings
• Date: 100 BCE–100 CE
• Culture: Syria, Roman
• Type: Jewelry
• Technique: gold and garnet
• Dimensions: Diameter: 2.4 cm (15/16 in.); Overall: 0.5 cm (3/16 in.)
• Collection: GR - Roman
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1985.174

A detail from the museum

These two earrings are nearly identical; one lacks a gold bead above the garnet.

Collection credit

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Jerald S. Brodkey in memory of Frederick D. Brodkey

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (1986): 26–71.

View the collection record

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