Hair ring with female heads
Hair ring with female heads

Currently not on view

Hair ring with female heads,

7th century BCE

Etruscan
Orientalizing Period, ca. 750–575 BCE
2001-180

Information

Title
Hair ring with female heads
Dates

7th century BCE

Medium
Gold
Dimensions
diam. 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Classical Purchase Fund
Object Number
2001-180
Place Made

Europe, Italy, Etruria (central Italy)

Culture
Etruscan
Period
Orientalizing
Type
hair ornaments, metalwork
Materials
gold
Subject
women, heads, zigzags

Purchased from Robert Hecht Jr. and Atlantis Antiquities, NY in 2001. Said to have been purchased from Hubert Heryfelder in Paris in the 1960s.

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