Boat-shaped earrings with filigree and granule decoration

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Boat-shaped, sometimes called leech-shaped earrings, are a common type in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world, and few are well-dated. This earring with the addition of some granulation and and filagree decoration is likely to date from the late Ptolemaic Period into the second century AD.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art