17 juillet 2025
Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant, East Greek, Hellenistic, ca. 300 BCE
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Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant, East Greek, Hellenistic, ca. 300 BCE. Gold. Overall (A): 6.6 cm; Other (Diameter of disc): 2.2 cm; Diam.: 1.9 cm. Rogers Fund, 48.11.2, .3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
A tiny figure of Nike (the personification of victory) driving two horses is set amid the floral design above the boat-shaped forms on these extraordinarily elaborate earrings.
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