Pendant. Gold and chalcedony. Dimensions: 4,1 x 3,2 cm
First half of the 1st century
Found: Large (“Bolshoy”) Barrow. Krasnodar Territory, the Town of Armavir
https://abadzeh.livejournal.com/59674.html
Gold and chalcedony, Meotian burial. Maikop region, Psenafa [Псенафа] archaeological complex, burial 62, 2nd-1st century BCE.
2,3 х 1,8 х 0,9 cm
“Pendant with an agate insert oval in plan, the edges of the stone are fixed with a two-sided frame of multidirectional teeth, framed with filigree wire both on the front and on the reverse side; on the front side, the product is decorated with two belts of ribbons with soldered wire “pigtails” arranged crosswise, the intersection of the ribbons is decorated with a six-beam rosette with a ball of granulation in the center; in the upper part, a relief loop for hanging is soldered to the frame; the stone is slightly convex on the front side, flattened on the back.” [Vladimir Erlikh]
More about this burial >> https://colorsandstones.eu/2023/04/28/psenatha
- Vladimir Erlikh, Древности “Долины яблонь” Каталог выставки. 2014 https://www.academia.edu
- The work of the Caucasian expedition in 2012, an article by Vladimir ERLIKH [Работа Кавказской экспедиции в 2012 г., Владимир ЭРЛИХ] http://www.kavkazoved.info/news/2013/01/28/rabota-kavkazskoj-ekspedicii-v-2012-respublika-adygeja.html
- https://izverzhenie-vulkana.ru/2020/11/psenafa_kompleks_meotskoj_arheologicheskoj_kultury_najdennyj_na_okraine.html