Object: J 158
Inventory Number:   J 158
Section Number:   ΒΔ 638
Title:   Gold Button or Earring
Category:   Jewelry & Gems
Description:   Complete except for broken hollow wire at bottom.
Bottom is hollow plain hemisphere with hollow wire leading out. Top made of separate piece folded over bottom piece with seam below corner. Top has projecting hollow cylinder (for gem setting ?). Applied decoration: braid at corner. Alternating ivy leaves and "S" s (four at each). Triangles of three granules between each ivy leaf, single granule between each ivy leaf and S at base of cylinder.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Zigzag drain, layer 2.
Handling:   Stoa Gallery
Negatives:   Leica, color slide
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.018; P.H. 0.016
Material:   Gold
Date:   5 July 1971
Section:   ΒΔ
Grid:   Q/1-6/8
References:   Report: 1971 ΒΔ
Report Page: 1971 ΒΔ, s. 3
Image: 2000.02.0364 (Slide Sheet: 05:20)
Image: 2000.02.0721 (Slide Sheet: 29:15)