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MM 1990:004 a+b :: pendant

Object description: Each consists of a plain round wire, tapered towards the ends and bent in horseshoe fashion, with upturned ends, each wrought into the shape of a stylized flower bud.

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Inventory number

MM 1990:004 a+b

Serie nummer

21980

Object

pendant

Country - Findspot

Greece : Europe

Place - Findspot

Eastern Greece.

Material

Silver; Metal

Acquisition

From the collection of Carl Kempe, 1990.

Description

Each consists of a plain round wire, tapered towards the ends and bent in horseshoe fashion, with upturned ends, each wrought into the shape of a stylized flower bud.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

6th-5th century BC

Exhibition - Current

Guldrummet 2022

Time - Start: 20222022

Exhibition, Part of - Current

Guldrummet 2022, Grekland

Exhibition - Previously

Guldrummet

Time - Start: 19891989
Time - End: 20222022

Exhibition, Part of - Previously

Guldrummet - Showcase 11:03.

Comments

-Earlier inv.nr. CK S1.

-Ear pendants of this type, called helikes, were suspended from the ears by means of a ring. They were used in many parts of the Greek world and its colonial territories, from the eight-seventh into the fourth century BC.

NegNo

9794D

Publications

- Antiken (NM), 1967, no. 118.

Height / Höjd

Width / Bredd

Dimensions

Condition

Original register

GreekRoman

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