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Nov 11, 2011
Nov 11, 2011
Ear Spool
Ear Spool
c. 400–900
Hammered gold
Diameter: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); Overall: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
Roberta Holden Bole Fund 1958.192
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Description
Harvard archaeologists excavated these and seven other ornaments from several burials at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The young man buried in Grave 26 was such a chief. His status was stunningly memorialized by 21 human companions and 475 objects, many of them personal ornaments made of gold, including a large chest plaque and a rod-shaped ear ornament.
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