Earrings
Earrings
Earrings seem to have been introduced into Egypt in the Second Intermediate Period and became particularly popular in the New Kingdom. Many would have necessitated stretched ear lobes. The mummy mask of Tutankhamun is perhaps the most famous depiction of stretched lobes.
EC518 Earplug of striped glass
W919 A Graeco-Roman Mummy Mask depicting earrings
