Hair Ring
This object is On Display
| Object Number: | MS3346A |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Greek Etruscan (uncertain) |
| Provenience: | Italy |
| Date Made: | 699-500 BCE |
| Early Date: | -699 |
| Late Date: | -500 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Gold |
| Width: | 0.1 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 1.7 cm |
| Credit Line: | Museum Purchase; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
| Other Number: | 9 - Other Number |
Description
Hair Spirals. Intact, identical pair. Flattened strip of gold wound around spirally in 2 complete turns, each end forming part of an additional turn. The sides of the strip are decorated with fine cord pattern. Applique decoration on each or the turns: 4 small disks on each turn, parallel to one another. A similar small disk at one end of strip.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Five Thousand Years of Vanity (06 Jan 1944 - 28 Feb 1944) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Classical World - Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Chapter] Nagy, Helen, and Bell, Sinclair, and Turfa, Jean M. 2009. "Etruscan Gold from Cerveteri (and Elsewhere) in the University of Pennsylvania Museum". New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome: In Honor of Richard De Puma. Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. pg. 91-118 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 94, fig. 6.1; p. 96 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 173, no. 161; p. C4, pl. 15 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p.209, no.9 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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