Gallery: Jewels and Precious Objects
Gold openwork hairnet with medallion (200–150BCE) This Gallery is going to show you some jewels and some precious ornaments or objects. The pictures were taken at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In this passage, when Hera wants to seduce Zeus, she goes to her room to prepare herself. Earrings are part of her attire. [170] She cleansed all the dirt from her fair body with ambrosia, then she anointed… Read more