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Pair of earrings with gold discs, pyramid pendants, Eros figures holding a iynx (magic love charm) and a winged Nike (personification of victory). Gold, 330-300 BC.
Français : Paire de boucles d'oreilles à disque d'or, pendantif en forme de pyramide, Éros portant un iynx (charme magique amoureux) et Niké (personification de la victoire). Or, 330-300 av. J.-C.
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Earrings with pendants in the shape of amphorae. Gold, 2nd–1st centuries BC.
Français : Boucles d'oreilles à pendants en forme d'amphores. Or, IIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C.
Date

British Museum

Upper floor, room 22, Alexander the Great & the Hellenistic world, case 7
Accession number

GR 1906.4-11.1 (Cat. Jewellery 2331)
Credit line

Former Tyszkiewicz and Guilhou collections
Source/Photographer

Marie-Lan Nguyen (2006)

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