3-044-324 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Earring, 5th century BC. Additional Info: One of a pair of spiral earrings fashioned as an elongated coil (one and a half turns) of gold foil over a copper alloy core. At both ends are elaborate piriform terminals with beaded wire tongues and a single grain at the apex, with a corrugated sheet collar. In some places the gold has worn away, exposing the copper beneath.