Earrings

Earrings imitating a Mycenaean necklace with gold beads in the shape of an eight-leaved rosette. The motif of eight or six-leaved rosettes, similar to wild roses with few petals, was widely used in Aegean jewellery and carryied strong symbolic connotations. Wild roses are present both in Minoan and in Mycenaean art in ritual scenes and signify in the Mycenean script the name of a month during specific religious rites took place. Late Helladic IIB-III period (1450-1200 BC).