“Other examples of ancient Central Asian jewellery include pieces from the nomad burial sites of southern Tajikistan (Tulkhar, Aruktau or Bishkent burial places and others) or the recent finds from the site of Mes Aynak (Faticoni 2014, 23–36); jewellery of an earlier period is represented for example by the objects from the so‑called Oxus treasure (Dalton 1926).
Other pieces of jewellery are also kept or displayed in the collections of the world’s major museums such as the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Miho Museum in Japan. Many of them were obtained through purchases from public auctions, private sales or as gifts and therefore they are often without provenance and exact archaeological context (Ogden 1992, 9–13). The stylistic analysis of the unprovenanced gold pieces depends mainly on the comparison with other items with known provenance. It is very likely that a lot of other jewellery from ancient Central Asia can be found in private collections.”
Ancient Adornments of Central Asia Influenced by the Greek Jewellery of the Classical and Hellenistic Period
Petra Belaňová