Earrings with bull head terminal 4th–3rd century Ptolemaic Period Hoops formed of wound wire with animal head terminals are the commonest type of Hellenistic earring. The bull-head earring appears throughout the Mediterranean, probably a positive image because of the physical and sexual prowess attributed to bulls. Examples like this one with a simple collar composed of a series of tongues mostly date to the early Ptolemaic Earrings with bull head terminal 551294

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