Hoop earrings with coiled wire pendant

Hoop earrings with coiled wire pendant

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hoops with pendants were popular throughout the Roman Period. These hoops have long pendants formed either from coiled wire or possibly a corrugated tube, and may be compared with the similar excavated pair 06.976a, b.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.