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Crystal quartz adornments in Ancient Greece

© The National Archaeological Museum of Athens Picture: Sandrine Merle

Bronze pins with crystal quartz, 16th century BCE, Mycenae.

Bronze pins with crystal quartz beads, 16th century BCE, Mycenae.
catalog NAM Athens, p. 113

The so-called “pendant” made of rock crystal and gold, 4th cent. BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Taranto

The lower part is made of a gold disc decorated with concentric circles of raised threads with a central rosette with concave petals surmounted by a solid gold sphere.

Gold of Magna Graecia | The “treasure” of the Priestess of Taranto at the British Museum
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