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Disc, shield ornaments [d/b]

Photo: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Gold Spheres

From Bawa Gelde Kurdistan Late Bronze Age, 14th to 10th centuries BCE Bawa Gelde excavation 2010 Gold

Weight 8.88 gSM 4634 , OR 0479

These gold ornaments consist of ten hollow discs of different sizes with granulated margin—some were linked together by small golden rings. The largest disc is convex, hollow, and bears a different decoration on its convexity; in the middle part of the concavity, there is a ring to which a thread was attached. These were presumably used to embellish clothing or headgear

From the paper “Masterpieces of the Slemani Museum” by

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin  https://www.academia.edu

see also 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sulaymaniyah_Museum

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hatra