Greek Gold Earring with Nike driving a two-horse chariot (350-325 BC)
The ancient Greek earring, depicting Nike, the goddess of Victory, resplendent in gold wings and headdress and driving her two-horse chariot, still has wheels that actually still turn, more than two millennia…
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Greek Gold Earring with Nike driving a two-horse chariot (350-325 BC)
The ancient Greek earring, depicting Nike, the goddess of Victory, resplendent in gold wings and headdress and driving her two-horse chariot, still has wheels that actually still turn, more than two millennia after it was created.
The expressions on her horses’ faces are still clearly visible, and the delicate golden reins that Nike used to control them are amazingly still extant.
More than a hundred individual pieces of gold were used to make the one surviving earring, which was created some time around the years 350 to 325 BC.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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