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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 on the edge are attached with gold-capped pins (8 of the pins still survive).
Material from a hoard which was buried, about 500BC, beneath th floor of a room in the Temple of Sin, the moon god; the items were made about 700BC-500BC except for some beads which are earlier than 2000BC and had probably been recovered from graves in the Royal Cemetery area”

Gold, carnelian, sardonyx. Width: 3.90 cm

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