necklace, Thessaloniki, 525-500 BCE [d/b]

Chest ornament 

525-500 BC

Sindos cemetery, Tomb 67. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inv. n. ΜΘ 7972. Gold. Excellent preservation, one pendant missing. L. 15.

Chest ornament consisting of fifteen plaques and fourteen pendants. Each plaque is formed by two groups of three petals on either side of a central rib. A pendant shaped like a grain of wheat hangs from a suspension ring attached to the central lower petal. On the reverse are small threading loops for two parallel threads.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Δεσποίνη – Βοκοτοπούλου – Μισαηλίδου – Τιβέριος 1985, n. 315 (A.Despoini)

https://www.academia.edu/3636674/D_Ignatiadou_The_Sindos_priestess_Princesses_of_the_Mediterranean_in_the_Dawn_of_History_N_Ch_Stambolides_M_Giannopoulou_eds_Cycladic_Art_Museum_Athens_2012_388_411_in_Greek_English_and_Italian_

compare with Nimrud