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Necklace

    • Provenienza:
      From a tomb in the Cittadella contrada, Serra Orlando (Morgantina), purchased 1911
    • Data:
      3rd century BC
    • Materiali:
      Gold, paste glass
    • Dimensioni:
      lenght 41 cm, medallion diameter 17 mm, weight 9.84 g
    • Collocazione:
      Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”
    • Inventario:
      inv. 32138
  • Necklace

The necklace, consisting of fifteen gold beads alternating with the same number of hard, stone-like beads, most likely made of paste glass, is closed with a disc-shaped medallion decorated in relief with a female face or with Eros'face, in a three-quarter view and surrounded by a herringbone pattern border.