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Pair of gold, garnet, enamel, and glass earrings

2nd century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 163
The earrings have terminals representing the head of Apis, the sacred Egyptian bull, identified by the sun disk and crescent set between his horns. In Ptolemaic Egypt, the cult of Apis was combined with that of Osiris to create a new Greco-Egyptian deity, Sarapis.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Pair of gold, garnet, enamel, and glass earrings
  • Period: Hellenistic
  • Date: 2nd century BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Ptolemaic
  • Medium: Gold, garnet, enamel, glass
  • Dimensions: Overall: 1 15/16 x 1 9/16in. (5 x 4cm)
  • Classification: Gold and Silver
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Bothmer Purchase Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994
  • Object Number: 1994.230.8, .9
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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