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Cesnola, Luigi Palma di [Editor]
A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Band 3) — New York, 1903

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Plate XX,

Gold Earrings of various sorts, mainly pendants. Probably all were votive offerings. The
collection contains seven specimens like those shown in the first line, and sixteen like those in the
second. From a Vault at Curium.

i. Earring. Length 3^ inch.

Has S-hook, fastened at top and middle of drop-shaped front.

2. Earring. Length il/g inch.

Consists of convex disk, with S-hook fastened above, and ring with drop-shaped pendant
below.

3. Earring. Length 1 % inch. Pendant yA inch long.

Convex disk, with plain wire hook behind and drop-shaped pendant hung below the hook
with small ring.

4. Earring. Length iys inch.

Convex disk, with S-hook fastened at top ; drop-shaped pendant below, hung on ring.

5. Earring. Length i3/i6 inch. Pendant, length l/2 inch.

Has S-hook fastened at top of palmette front. Oval convex pendant, hung on ring.

6. Earring. Length \y% inch. Diameter (globe) % inch, (disk) i/% inch.

Consists of about one-third of a sphere, back angular, hollow; flat disk above. S-hook,
with lower part upturned ; small ball at end. Row of small gold globules at junction of disk and
ball.

7. Earring. Length 1 inch. Diameter (quadrant) 9/ie inch, (disk) % inch.
Plain hook ; quadrant, with disk above. Five beads at junction.

8. 9. Earrings. Length 1 inch. Diameter i/A inch.

Consists of a section of a sphere, with flat back; small disk above, with S-hook fastened to
top of same.
 
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