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Wide cuffs, arm bracelets, and bracers of the steppe peoples.

Golden arm bracelet (a thin gold sheet is curled and formed, five tile ribs are hammered on it, and there are rope patterns woven by gold threads between the tile ribs). The decoration is inlaid with turquoise and carnelian.
The bracelet is 9.5 cm in length, 4.8-6.6 cm in diameter, and weighs 159 grams.

Found in Majiayuan cemetery, Tomb M16, the Warring States Period [4th-3rd century BCE]

[more about the tomb M16]

https://www.sohu.com/a/518331274_121106869
http://www.jinshasitemuseum.com/Exhibition/ExhibitionSpecialDetails?id=4526&&option=1
Photo after Yan Liu

The bracelet was found in the burial of an approximately 40-year-old man, by his right arm. Due to the placement of the bracelet, it is considered to be an armlet.

Photo source https://new.qq.com
https://new.qq.com/omn/20191222/20191222A0BTKT00.html
https://www.sohu.com/a/518331274_121106869

Bracelet is said to be closed by a decorative stripe woven to the main part by gold thread. This technique can be seen on the silver cup from the tomb M1 at the Majiayuan cemetery.
The edges of the mug-forming sheet are caught with two strips of gold and sewn to the mug.
If made in the similar way, the bracelet had to be closed (sewn up) on the man’s arm and was intended to be worn permanently.
Besides, given the diameters of a bracelet (4.8-6.6 cm), and that it belonged to a grown man, it seems to be more likely that it was a bracer.

Silver cup M1L: 114, the upper diameter is 6.6 cm, the lower diameter: 6.2 cm, the height: 8.4 cm; weight 64.9 grams
Rolled up a rectangular silver sheet into a cylinder shape, pressed two gold bars at the junction, and sewn with thin gold bars. Bottomless.


Yunnan culture

Western Han Golden Armor

18.8 cm high, unearthed in 1956 from Tomb No. 12 in Shizhai Mountain, Jinning, Yunnan Province, Yunnan Provincial Museum


Gold cuff, a bracelet [a bracer], width – 10.9 cm; length – 14.0 cm
1st century BCE, Sarmatian, from a burial near Kosika.
The Astrakhan State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve collection [Museum record]

Read more >> https://colorsandstones.eu/2023/11/01/gold-wide-cuffs-1st-century-bce-sarmatian-from-a-burial-near-kosika-d-b/

https://swordmaster.org/forum/cat-Novostiarheologii/topic-314.html

©Astrakhan State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve [record]

  1. THE HAN EMPIRE AND THE HELLENISTIC WORLD: PRESTIGE GOLD AND THE EXOTIC HORSE
    Yan Liu http://maajournal.com/Issues/2020/Vol20-3/12_Liu_20(3).pdf
  2. New Knowledge of Ancient Roads: Silk Road Cultural Heritage Science and Technology Achievements Exhibition; in the China National Silk Museum, 2017 https://www.chinasilkmuseum.com
    Catalog >> https://iidos.cn/RoadApplication/info.aspx?itemid=8923#book8923/