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Pair of Earrings or Hair Ringlets with Ram Head
The collection record classifies this work as jewelry. It is dated 400s BCE. Recorded culture or place: Greece, Hellenistic period.
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- Museum title
- Pair of Earrings or Hair Ringlets with Ram Head
- Date
- 400s BCE
- Culture / origin
- Greece, Hellenistic period
- Materials and technique
- gold
- Dimensions
- Overall: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1968.102
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
The main spiral body of this ornament is made from a hollow tube, decorated in the center with a double palmette. Each end of the ornament is capped with a ram’s head above an elaborate collar. There are no join seams on the main tube, meaning it must have been cast as a spiral or otherwise as a tapered tube that was then bent into shape. Scholars believe that these helical pieces were used as earrings (perhaps with a separate attachment) or to hold hair in place.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund · CC0
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