Conical earrings

Conical earrings

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This earring is a variant of the type of hoops with pendants formed from inverted pyramids that is popular in the Roman Period. Here the pendant is an inverted cone and the hoop is made from corrugated sheet. Pendants with inverted pyramids or cones seem to date to the 2nd century and later based on their appearance on panel paintings.

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.