Photo after Ibrahim Ahmad
Decorative disc, a stud with granulated decoration. “for its shape, the stud was identified with the covering of the top end of a ceremonial stick” [Frances Pinnock]
Gold and lapis lazuli
Diam. 3 cm, th. 0.3 cm
Ebla; Area Q. Royal Necropolis, Tomb of the Lord of the Goats, Hypogeum C
Middle Bronze II: ca 1750-1700 BCE
Aleppo, National Museum; TM.79.Q.200
Photo Italian Archaeological Expedition to Ebla after Frances Pinnock
- Introduction to Goldsmith Techniques in Syria during the Early and Middle Bronze Age
Ibrahim Ahmad (2020)
Asia Anteriore Antica. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures 2: 3-23.
doi: 10.13128/asiana-815 - Some Gublite Artifact Possibly Made at Ebla; Frances Pinnock; p. 85-100 https://doi.org/10.4000/syria.1547
- The gold of the Regolini-Galassi Tomb: between technology and symbol. New reading proposals in the context of the orientalizing phenomenon in Etruria [Gli ori della Tomba Regolini-Galassi : tra tecnologia e simbolo. Nuove proposte di lettura nel quadro del fenomeno orientalizzante in Etruria], Maurizio Sannibale https://www.persee.fr
- Granulation and Glass: Chronological and Stylistic Investigations at Selected Sites, ca. 2500-1400 B. C. E.;
Christine Lilyquist https://www.jstor.org/stable/1357319
Brooch with sardonyx, 3rd century, Syria [d/b]
Gold brooch with sardonyx, and garnet and emeralds in the frame. 6 x 5,2 cm….
Medallion with sardonyx, 3rd century, Syria [d/b]
Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Stefan Büchner “Large sardonyx in gold capsule: brooch…
Brooch with sapphire, 1st-2nd century [d/b]
Gold brooch with sapphire [?], and the garnet, emerald and green glass paste in the…
Gold brooch from Khisfin [Damascus Museum] [d/b]
Gold brooch from Khisfin, Damascus Museum Inv. 4318/10127316After Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom, Schmuck aus dem Reich der Nabatäer…
Brooch-medallion from Kythnos, Greece [d/b]
Bronze circular fibula in the form of a cut-out rosette or disc with repoussé rosette…
Medallion from Ur [Iraq], Temple of Sin, 700-500 BCE [d/b]
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1923-1110-164 “Gold pendant or spacer bead, with agate eye-stone at centre; the 12 cornelian beads…
Medallion / hairnet, Hellenistic? [auction] [d/b]
“In the Hellenistic style” Hair ornament in the form of a filigree disc from which…
On one type of the openwork medallions. Notes
© The Trustees of the British Museum 1917,0601.2946 © Victoria and Albert Museum M.44-1963 Medaliony…
Medallion, an ornament of a diadem, Ur, 2500 BCE [d/b]
Roundel; worn by a child; circular ornament; alternate gold, lapis lazuli and cornelian beads (gold…
Inlaid Rosette, Egypt, 1427–1400 BCE [d/b]
Inlaid Rosette, diam. 2.5 cmNew Kingdom, ca. 1427–1400 B.C. “This rosette has been inlaid with…
Disc-shaped headdress ornaments, Egypt, ca. 2100 BCE
British museum EA63438https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA63438 Egypt: Asyut (Governorate): Matmar, 2100 BC; diam. 4.8 cm; cooper, glass, carnelian….
Armenia, medallions / pinheads, gold and carnelian [d/b]
Medallion from Lori Berd, Armenia (fig 6, 18) – a pin head with embedded carnelians…