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Tillya Tepe – necklaces

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Tillya Tepe is an archaeological site in northern Afghanistan near Sheberghan, in the ancient region of Bactria. It was surveyed in 1979 by a Soviet-Afghan mission of archaeologists led by Victor Sarianidi. They found a total of around 20,000 gold ornaments in six graves thought to date to around the 1st century BCE – 1st century CE.

STRING OF BEADS

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Necklace from the Tomb 3.
Made of gold hollow beads, diam. of beads 1,6-2,1 cm

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The necklace consists of 13 hollow gold beads: 11 in the form of spheres and 2 conical, and four “black” beads made of amber. Diam. of beads 1,8-2,4 cm

Gold hollow beads inlaid with turquoise, diam. of beads 2,5-5,8 cm. Tomb 6
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Necklace from the Tomb 5. 1st century.
Gold, turquoise, garnet, pyrites. Length 29.1 cm
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Gold and garnet, pendants of a necklace. Tomb 3
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