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Acorns, pomegranates and miniature amphorae shaped-pendants

Two pairs of earrings / temple pendants from Kul-oba, the royal Scythian female burial from Crimea, 4th century BCE
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Thracian, Bulgaria, 4th C BCE
Photo: Todor Dimitrov/Courtesy of the Regional Historical Museum, Vratsa, Bulgaria
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1st Millenium BCE, Tabriz, Iran
Photo by Fabienkhan
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Gold necklace. Total length: 15.5 cm, height: 2.7-2.8 cm

Preserved: Six whole vascular beads with double rosette in the upper part (height: 2.7-2.8cm., Width: 1.2cm). The lower largest rosette is dodecahedral and the smaller decaf leaf. The body of the vascular beads is divided into two parts, with a twisted belt and two simple wires. It is decorated with the wire technique, in the upper part with upright and in the lower part with inverted enclosed anthems. At the bottom a large ball (diameter: 0.4cm). Seven oppositely connected lotus flowers (height: 1-1.1cm, width: 0.7-1cm), as well as a flowery end of the bay (height: 2.2cm, width: 1cm).
Dating: 330 BCE
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Jewelry of the Thracian priestess Leseskepra, Anchialo, Bulgaria
1st C BCE – 1st C CE
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Earrings and the necklace elements.
Grave of a Scythian woman from the Ust-Alma Necropolis, Crimea, 1st century [read more]