2012.1.17: Gold Earring

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2012.1.17

Title

Gold Earring

Classification

Jewelry

Work Type

earring

Date

1st-3rd century

Period

Roman Imperial period

Culture

Roman

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/178627

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gold

Dimensions

H: 2.4 x W: 1 x TH: 0.3 cm (15/16 x 3/8 x 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Walton Brooks McDaniel, New Jersey (?-1943/46), gift; to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1943/46-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Note: Walton Brooks McDaniel gave a portion of his collection to the Department of the Classics in 1943 and the rest in 1946. The Collection is named for his late wife, Alice Corinne McDaniel.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University

Accession Year

2012

Object Number

2012.1.17

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Gold wire hoop earring with a convex disk near the loop attachment; it is enhanced by a twisted gold wire pendant with an irregular amethyst decahedron terminal.

Publication History

• John Crawford, Sidney Goldstein, George M. A. Hanfmann, John Kroll, Judith Lerner, Miranda Marvin, Charlotte Moore, and Duane Roller, Objects of Ancient Daily Life. A Catalogue of the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Belonging to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, ed. Jane Waldbaum, Department of the Classics (unpublished manuscript, 1970), M199, p. 214-15 [J. S. Crawford]

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