Syncretic goddess with a baby, 2nd century, Eastern Roman http://colorsandstones.eu/Silver medallion from the altar treasury. Vani, 2nd-1st C BCE Georgia Source: Gocha R. Tsetskhaldze; Archaeological investigations in Georgia in the last ten years and some problems of the ancient history of the Eastern Black Sea region [1994] https://www.persee.fr
Silver brooch with a bronze needle, 1st C BCE – 2nd C CE The shield is round, convex, made of a thin silver plate, with a relief bust image of the goddess. The face is shown from the front, on the head there is a headdress or a tiara from under which the hair is shown with a strip with oblique notches, on the shoulders and chest the wrapped chiton is shown with oblique stripes. The figure is framed by a circle filled with small dots, then there are vertical notches in groups, the horizontal outer belt is covered with thin lines filled with a zigzag. Northern Black Sea region, Rostov Region, Archaeological Museum-Reserve “Tanais” https://archivogram.top/36808536-fibula-broshy
Silver medallion, partly gilded, probably from a pyxis lid. It is welded from several sections and incomplete in part. Depicted in relief is a winged female figure, probably Victory / Nike. She wears a strapless tunic that drapes over the shoulders. The head is turned to the right. The headdress is formed by disorderly braids that frame the face and neck. Diameter : 7.5 cm. Hellenistic Greek Hellenistic, Archaeological Museum of Serres, Greece https://nationalarchive.culture.gr
Gold medallion [a chain link] with Aphrodite and Eros; 4th C BCE. Gold and glass, 3.3×2.3 cm (with loops) ГИМ 54791/679 https://catalog.shm.ru Together with ГИМ 54791/680 https://catalog.shm.ru
Aphrodite with Eros and a scepter. period: mid-2nd century, diameter: 3,0 cm Northern Black Sea Coast, Bosporan Kingdom Collection: The Hermitage [Item withdrawn from the museum’s online database]
Aphrodite with Eros and a scepter; 3rd-2nd century BCE. Diam. 4,58 cm; 15,1 g. Southern Russia Collection: Altesmuseum, Berlin https://id.smb.museum Photo by Sailko
Aphrodite with Eros; 2nd century BCE, diameter: 3,4 cm; thickness: 1,4 cm Northern Black Sea Coast, Bosporan Kingdom Collection: The Hermitage [Item withdrawn from the museum’s online database]
Diadem with a medallion, Artemis, Greek Hellenistic Length: 23 cm. Gold “It consists of three sections connected by thin links. The two extremes are oblong wrought plates with floral decoration of air-leaves, boletus and rosettes. The central panel is square, with a relief bust of Artemis wearing a tunic girdled under her breast and a gourti on her back. Small rings are kept at the ends of the diadem to fasten it to the head. Minor wear on one edge.” Archaeological Museum of Serres https://nationalarchive.culture.gr
Gold medallion, diameter: 5,7 cm. 3rd century BC Found: Panticapaeum. Crimea, the environs of Kerch Collection: The Hermitage, П.1834-63
Gold Disc with the Head of Athena; height: 18,5 cm; diameter: 7,3 cm (disc). 400-350 BCE; Found: Kul-Oba barrow. Crimea, the environs of Kerch Collection: The Hermitage, КО.-5
Temple pendants Decorated with a Nereid Sitting on a Hippocamp in the Medallion height: 15,5 cm, D-7,3 cm (disc) Created: 4th century BC Found: Bolshaya Bliznitsa Barrow. Krasnodar Territory, Taman Peninsula, near the Cossack village of Vyshesteblievskaya https://www.hermitagemuseum.org
From Syria Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités orientales, AO 24760 [read more]
in the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany [read more]
Gold pendant with a bust of Io. Roman, 1st – 2nd century. 4.89g, ø 3cm, L 3.6cm. Round medallion with the sculptural, draped bust of Io with cow horns. A wide, reliefed eyelet at the top. A pseudo-granulated, circumferential gold wire on the edge.
Provenance: Acquired in 1981 from the A.C. collection, England. Before that, English art trade in the late 1970s.
Medallion, gold ornament with a sardonyx intaglio depicting head of Apollo in profile. Tartus, Syria; 275 – 325 CE In Louvre [read more]
2nd century medallion, gold with garnets and pearls. ø 2.2 cm [M. Humar] Tomb of Ayn Jawan, National Museum, Riyadh.
A special case – a pair of gold rings with the image of the goddess Athena, whose face was carved from garnet. Early 3rd century BCE They were found in the female burial at the necropolis of Panticapaeum, Crimea, Kerch.
“Concavo-convex gold boss formed of two sheets of gold, the upper one folded over the lower; around the rim is a beaded wire; within this is a laurel or myrtle wreath outlined in filigree, with a rosette above and a Herakles knot below; in the center, within a beaded wire, is the head of a maenad in relief, wearing an ivy-wreath, her eyes inlaid with enamel.” 3rd C BCE www.britishmuseum.org
“Roundel, with head of Apollo as a musician in relief. Surface gilded, eyes once inlaid.” Greek, Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE Gilded silver, diameter 7 cm In the MFA Boston inv. no. 1985.333
Золотой медальон из Гавара с изображением Исиды-Деметры и Гора-Гарпократа; Hasmik Margaryan https://www.academia.edu
Lit.: M. Treister, Synkretische Göttinnen auf dem Schmuckwaren der ersten nachrischtlichen Jahrhunderten aus Phanagoreia und Gorgippia und einige Beobachtungen zur Ikonographie des Aphodite Ourania im Kimmerischen Bosporos https://www.academia.edu
M. Treister, Gold Funeral Wreaths of the Bosporan Kingdom 4th c. BC – 5th c. AD. (genesis and chronology of the main types) https://www.academia.edu
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