About earrings in a chandelier form or pendants and cassette  type earrings from Roman Dacia Cover Image

Despre cerceii de tip candelabru sau cercei cu pandantive și casetă în Dacia Romană
About earrings in a chandelier form or pendants and cassette type earrings from Roman Dacia

Author(s): Ana Cristina Hamat
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, Economic history, Ancient World
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: Roman Dacia; jewelry; earrings; luxury; IInd-IIIrd centuries AD

Summary/Abstract: During the Ist-IIIrd centuries, the earrings become a dominant in the women's clothing accessories. For Dacia we have two types of high circulation, the one with bent bar and colored glass pastes, which appears frequently from the early 1st century AD until the end of the province at the end of IIIrd century AD. and the earring with oval pendant and shield on the gold bar, sometimes decorated with email, shared by several variants, mostly in the third century. Along with these types, in Dacia we have also the chandelier type earrings or the earring with multiple pendants and cassette. Six earrings were discovered in Drobeta- Dierna, Tibiscum, Romita, near Potaissa and one of them was discovered somewhere on the territory of Transylvania. They are dated between IInd and IVth centuries AD, but the artefacts from the beginning of the IVth centuries AD were discovered on the line of Danube and therefore they are related with the revival of the Empire in the time of the dynasty of Constantin the Great.

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 187-206
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English, Romanian