Jewel inspired by a funerary mask from the Roman period. This type of earrings called "crotalia" (after a text by Pliny the Elder) were widespread throughout the Roman Empire. The masks, like the painted portraits, were affixed to Roman mummies, especially in the necropolises of the most Hellenised cities such as Antinoe, the city founded by Hadrian in 132 AD after the death of his favourite Antinous. Over the course of time, the idealised Greek-style masks of the 1st century tended towards an individualisation of features. Ornaments, hairstyles and clothing are influenced by
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