Armenia, medallions / pinheads, gold and carnelian [d/b]

Medallion from Lori Berd, Armenia (fig 6, 18) – a pin head with embedded carnelians (#18; tomb no. 114, Urartian Period cenotaph); “objects from relatively richly furnished graves dating from the 8th to 6th century B.C.”
[hair or a garment pin with a gold and carnelian head]

“Stylistically, pinhead #18 stands out from the other Urartian gold jewellery from Lori Berd because of its carnelian inlays. However, despite the dating of the cenotaph in the Urartian context, numerous parallels are known from various monuments in the South Caucasus, which are dated to the Middle Bronze Age, the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C.” [also Ebla, Byblos, Marlik]

the National Museum in Yerevan

Dynamics and Nature of the Relations between South Caucasus and Aegean World in the Bronze Age
Goderdzi Narimanishvili, Nino Shanshashvili
https://www.academia.edu/28769056/Dynamics_and_Nature_of_the_Relations_between_South_Caucasus_and_Aegean_World_in_the_Bronze_Age

Rene Kunze, Prehistoric gold from Lake Sevan Basin? New research on Armenian gold deposits and objects
https://www.academia.edu

Fig. 6. Items analysed from **Lori Berd (1–18)**, Verin Naver (19–33), Nerkin Naver (34, 41–47), Gorayk (35) and Karmir Blur (36–40). All items made of gold except nos. 2, 8, 46 and 47 (made of silver) (Ushkiani-Team Archive) [after **Rene Kunze**]

Seda Devejyan 2006, Lori Berd II, Bronz Moyen
https://www.academia.edu/45599928/Devejyan_Lori_Berd_II_Bronz_Moyen