A pair of Mesopotamian Gold Lunate Earrings, Early Dynastic Period, ca. 2500 - 2400 BCE 18315894_xl Color: White/ Red

Color: White/ Red

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A pair of Mesopotamian Gold Lunate Earrings, Early Dynastic Period, ca. 2500 - 2400 BCE 18315894_xl Color: White/ RedMade from two pieces of high karat gold sheet, each earring is shaped like a hollow crescent or open boat with raised ends. The crescents were probably shaped over a bitumen core. Woolley identified these objects such as this example as earrings because they were regularly found in pairs beside the skull. He suggested that the pin could have passed through the lobe of the ear. Another possibility, however, is that they hung beside the ear but were