Hellenistic jewelry that is a part of a find discovered and excavated in 1909 in Palaikastron, Thessaly region of central Greece.
Now in the MKG Hamburg https://sammlungonline.mkg-hamburg.de
Gold earrings with garnet, pearls, one with emerald, 3rd century BCE.
Overall: 1. Height: 8.3 cm; Width: 1.9cm; Weight: 12.24g [with emerald]
2. Height: 7.9 cm; Width: 1.9cm; Weight: 11.69g
The earrings were meant to be worn as a pair. “Both the dimensions, the weight and the two figures of little Eros related to each other indicate this. The gemstones set in gold are attached to a long bracket. A pierced pearl is set at the bottom on each side, one of which is missing. Three chains reach down; the two outer ones have garnets in the shape of pomegranate seeds. The chain in the middle is shorter and serves to hang up a fully cast Eros. He plays a kithara held in his left arm. He wears the belly and pubic robe of the Attis figures. They overlap meanings from the aphrodisiac-erotic subject area and that of Attis, the Phrygian god of fertility and lover of Cybele. Conceived in movement as a pair, the erotes, with widely billowing cloaks and open wings, seem about to land near the wearer.”
Gold appliques that originally decorated a robe or a diadem. 3rd/2nd century BCE.
Appliques with a leaning maenad, Inv. no. 1917.198, 1917.199, in her left hand she is holding kantharos, and a thyrsus staff in the right hand [attributes of Dionysus. It is thought that the appliques were originally attached with eyelets to a robe. 3,7 x 2,5 cm each.
Applique with a nereid riding a dolphin, originally an ornament of a robe. Inv. no 1925.182. 3,15 x 3,25 cm
Appliques with erotes are much smaller. The eyelets were used for attachment to a robe or diadem.
Eros holding a theatrical mask 1917.203; 1,8 x 1,85 cm
Eros holding a lowered torch 1925.178; 1,5 x 1,6 cm
Eros seating on an acanthus chalice playing a flute 1925.181; 2,8 x 2,6 cm [with eyelets]
With a taenia / tainia [a ribbon, a headband or fillet, worn in the hair in ancient Greece] 1917.202; 2,15 x 1,45 cm [with eyelets]