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Earrings Meret

Earrings Meret

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 ...
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Characteristics

Maintenance :
Avoid contact with water, chemicals and cosmetics
Artist :
Anonymous
Art movement :
Egyptian Antiquities
Museum :
Musée du Louvre
Materials :
Pearl, Brass
5 cm
EAN :
3336729157976
Dimensions :
4.5 cm x 1.8 cm
Reference :
BW400483
3 cm
EAN :
3336729157990
Dimensions :
3.2 cm x 1.8 cm
Reference :
BW400484

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Original work kept at :
Paris, musée du Louvre

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