Watch List notes:

Pair of gold earrings, Hellenistic to early Roman, delicate filigree, Eastern Mediterranean Style, Choice. Pair of gold earrings, (5.21 + 5.30 = 10.51g total) Hellenistic to early Roman, delicate filigree, Eastern Mediterranean Style, Choice. Of a similar item, the Getty Museum notes, “In the Hellenistic period, the Greek world was flooded with gold. Greece itself had few sources of this precious metal, and they had been depleted by the late Classical period. Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian Empire, which included Egypt, made vast resources of gold available for the first time. The various royal courts of Alexander's successors, including the Ptolemies in Egypt, comprised a wealthy clientele with a taste for luxury, which, in combination with this new abundance of gold, led to an immense outpouring of gold jewelry.”.