Amisos treasure

“Appliques [4 pieces] in the form of rectangular plates. Open and closed palmette and wave motifs made with filigree technique are soldered into the plates, flowers on the frames. At the end of one of the appliqués there are chain dangles with two beads with pomegranate figures. There are fastening rings at both corners on the upper parts of the appliques and a total of 8 cylindrical binding rings in groups of two at the bottom. It must be a piece of clothing or a piece of jewelry.
There are flower motifs made with filigree and granulation technique on rectangular shaped plates consisting of four parts. It is possible to see very similar motifs in the floral motifs on a necklace with grave finds from Pavlovsky from 330-300 BC, and in the ornamentation of flower motifs on a gold earring from the Great Bliznitza (Williams and Ogden, 1994: no.106, 116, 122, 168, 181, 190). The same floral motif is also seen on a gold double ear rosette from a tomb in Pyre, Taman Peninsula, dated to 350-300 BC (Williams and Ogden, 1994: no.109, 172). Also, 4th-3rd century BC. The treatment of the motifs depicted on the plate in the middle of a golden myrtle-leaved diadem dated to the mid-19th century and the depiction of the flower motifs on the corners of this plate are quite similar to the motifs in the Amisos samples (Marshall, 1911: plt. XXXIX-1632, 175-176). The appliques are dated to the late 4th century BC.” [Yeni Veriler]