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Set of jewelry

early 5th century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 170
The tomb group represents one of the richest and most impressive sets of Etruscan jewelry ever found. It comprises a splendid gold and glass pendant necklace, a pair of gold and rock-crystal disk earrings, a gold dress fastener (fibula) decorated with a sphinx, a pair of plain gold fibulae, a gold dress pin, and five finger rings. Two of the rings have engraved scarabs that revolve on a swivel bezel; one is decorated with embossed satyr heads, and the other two have decorated gold bezels.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Set of jewelry
  • Period: Late Archaic
  • Date: early 5th century BCE
  • Culture: Etruscan
  • Medium: Gold, glass, rock crystal, agate, carnelian
  • Dimensions: Length (L. of necklace): 14 3/16 in. (36 cm)
    Diameter (D. of disks): 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)
    Length (L. of fibula): 1 15/16 in. (5 cm)
    Length (L. of fibulae): 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
    Length (L. of pin): 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
    Diameter (D. of ring with youth intaglio): 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
    Diameter (D. of ring with Herakles intaglio): 15/16 in. (2.4 cm)
    Diameter (D. of ring with bird intaglio): 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
    Diameter (D. of plain ring 31/32): 15/16 in. (2.5 cm)
    Diameter (D. of ring with lion intaglio): 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
  • Classification: Gold and Silver
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940
  • Object Number: 40.11.7–.18
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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