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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 XXII. CONTINUED.

ii. Earring. Diameter 9/i6 inch. Length of chain i^inch.

Tapering gold wire, with ring and globule at one end and an in-hook with two turns.
Pendent chain of four links. The long link at bottom originally held a large bead. Shown up-side
down.

12. Earring. Length l/2 inch. Like No. 2, but lacks pendant.

13. Earring. Length 9/ig inch. Globule ornament; out-hook.

14. Earring. Diameter ]/z inch. Globule ornament; ends twisted together.

15. Earring. Diameter 3^ inch.

Plain; flat crescent; in-hook. The collection contains fifty-seven specimens of crescent-
shaped earrings of various patterns.

16. Earring. Diameter 3^ inch. Crescent, beaded edge; in-hook, two turns.

17. Earring. Diameter y% inch. Like No. 10. In-hook, partly untwisted.

18. 19. Earrings, pair. Diameter l/2 inch.

Rope pattern wire, very tightly twisted; tapering to hook. Larger end has convex orna-
ment and ring. No. 18 has ends twisted ; No. 19 has in-hook, ends unfastened.

20. Earring. Diameter S/fa inch. Plain, tapering wire. Boss. In-hook.

21. Earring. Length x%e inch.

Plain crescent; in-hook, two turns. Cylindrical bead on gold wire, attached in front.

22. Earring. Length 1 inch.

Crescent; drawn down to wire, making intertwined ring at each end.

23. 24. Earrings, pair. Length 11/% inch. Diameter (hoop) His inch, (disk) Vis inch.
Delta (s) shaped; boss ornament with beaded rim. Long hook.

25, 27. Earrings, pair. Length \l/2 inch.

Plain loop. Pendant originally consisted of representation of two-handled vase with cubi-
cal foot. Body a bead originally, now gone.

26. Earring. Length 13ig inch.

Palmette front, with loop at top of same, into which hook is twisted. Pendant like No. 1.
Shown up-side down.
 
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