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The earrings have terminals representing the head of Apis, the sacred Egyptian bull, identified by the sun disk and crescent set between his horns. In Ptolemaic Egypt, the cult of Apis was combined with that of Osiris to create a new Greco-Egyptian deity, Sarapis.
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Title: Pair of gold, garnet, enamel, and glass earrings
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 2nd century BCE
Culture: Greek, Ptolemaic
Medium: Gold, garnet, enamel, glass
Dimensions: Overall: 1 15/16 x 1 9/16in. (5 x 4cm)
Classification: Gold and Silver
Credit Line: Purchase, The Bothmer Purchase Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994
Object Number: 1994.230.8, .9
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