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| Keywords: Greek - Pair of Earrings - Walters 57382, 57383.jpg Made of gold these earrings have three flanged settings with stones each set within a bead-edged frame displayed against a roughly triangular sheet on the back of which the ear wire is attached A pin concealed behind the transverse bar below the settings secures six pendant chains Crumpled caps at the ends of the chains once covered the tops of glass beads which are now missing Some of the stones and one of the pendant chains are also missing century 1 BC Hellenistic gold with stones cm 5 8 accession number 57 382 57 383 77409 From a tomb near Olbia Parutino Ukraine F L van Gans Frankfurt date and mode of acquisition unknown Galerie Bachstitz The Hague Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1921 place of origin Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek art in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Art from Greece Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Ancient Greek jewellery of Olbia Olbia Ukraine | ||||
