Pair of Phoenician Gold Hoop Earrings

with trim made of coiled wire and hollow balls (hung on modern 21-k gold earwires)

7th - 5th Centuries BC

diam: 39 mm. (1 9/16 in.)

#0314a

ex: private American & European collections, 1980s

Comparanda: ; Musche, Brigitte ; Vorderasiatischer Schmuck von den Anfangen bis zur Zeit der Achaemeniden (ca.10.000-330 v. Chr.) (Leiden, 1992) pl. CIV; Rehm, Ellen; Der Schmucker der Achameniden (Munster, 1992) abb. 111, 114-119, pp.166-169