Gold necklace with crescent-shaped pendant
Unknown Artist
Some styles of Roman jewelry were both very long-lived and used throughout the Empire. The wheel-shaped finials and the crescent pendant, symbolic of the sun and moon, that decorate this necklace are found in jewelry from a hoard found in Britain dated to the mid-second century and in depictions on Roman mummy portraits from Egypt.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1921
1st–3rd century A.D.
Gold
36.8 x 36.8cm
21.88.90
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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