Project “Creation and presentation of digitally accessible cultural heritage of Shumen Municipality”

Earring

Detailed information

Name of the object

Earring

Inventory №

703

Location

Shumen Regional Museum

Material from which the item is made

Metal – gold, silver, copper, iron, bronze

Dimensions and weight

Method of acquisition and location

Cultural period of creation

Ethnography

Item description

Complex shape – two birds with upturned joined tails, with heads facing in opposite directions, each with chain attached to the beak, at the end hanging crescent of cast filigree. Elongated yellow bead attached to it on hook. Below it plaque, smooth side (reverse) in the shape of snowflake, and obverse granulated with larger and smaller beads and floral decoration. Above it two small red beads
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