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LOT 0208
Parthian Gold Earrings
2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (9.61 grams total, 32 mm wide each).
A group of two similar crescentic gold earrings with slender hook-and-eye hoop, bifacial ornament with gold bulbs to the lower perimeter of both faces and top edges, adorned with pyramid and flower head granules to front face, granule clusters to the inner edge to front face, plain, beaded and striptwist filigree wire crescents to the body, with alternating granulates triangles and rectangles below, repeated on the reverse. [2]
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
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