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Yemen and Arabia, notes on ancient jewelry

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Necklace in gold and carnelian with the antelope heads from Kharibat Hamdān/ Haram preserved in the National Museum of Ṣanʿāʾ (YM 25392)
Source Greece in the depths of Arabia, 2017 https://www.persee.fr
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Gioielli sudarabici da Kharibat Hamdān/Haram (Jawf, Yemen): osservazioni preliminari
Sabina Antonini de Maigret, Fabio Betti, Leila ‘Alī ‘Aqīl
https://doi.org/10.1484/J.SEC.5.112737

Greece in the depths of Arabia, 2017 https://www.persee.fr

South Arabian Gold Jewellery, Geoffrey Turner 2014
https://www.cambridge.org

    Gold necklace, 2nd century BCE
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    Gold necklace in the shape of a winged figure, from the city of Ma’rib. According to the independent archaeologist Abdullah Mohsen it is dated to the 7th-6th century BCE.
    Source https://almawqeapost.net/news/82667
    Yemeni artifacts offered for sale in 2022 in London
    The auction describes these pieces as being from southern Arabia (Yemen), in addition to other pieces that is considered to be from West Asia, which mainly includes southern Arabia (Yemen), Persia, Iraq, and Levant. This is due to their holders buying from sources far from the place of discovery.
    Photo ©Abdullah Mohsen
    Source https://almahriah.net/local/21251
    the village of Rishan in Bani Matar district, west of the Yemeni capital.
    https://arab-turkey.com/2023
    beads with lion motif
    beads with granulated decoration

    Set of gold jewelry from Yemen, now in the British Museum
    Inv. no. 136830 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1977-0226-32

    BEADS:
    String of eight sheet gold beads in form of recumbent lions; each made from two pieces of gold sheet, one punched to form the body and the second added to form the flat underside. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1977-0226-18

    beads with granulated decoration https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1977-0226-21 https://www.britishmuseum.org

    six gold beads, all made as a pair of punched hemispheres joined along the center https://www.britishmuseum.org


    Belt (?); strip of embossed sheet gold; ancient South Arabian text at either end; now in ten fragments. From Yemen, Bayan (Qataban). BM 136807 https://www.britishmuseum.org

    Two different motifs, both types framed by “pearl border”.

    Silver vessel from Wadi Dura, Yemen, 270-285 CE http://zhuanlan.com
    Al Thani Collection https://colorsandstones.eu
    Silver pyxis, Wadi Dura, Yemen, 1st century
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    Incense-burner showing a man riding a camel, 3rd century, alabaster, Shabwa, Yemen. H. 32cm. W. 15cm. In the British Museum, Image © Trustees of the British Museum inv. no. 125682
    https://english.aawsat.com/features/4705036-yemeni-antiquities-ongoing-hemorrhage-through-global-auctions

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