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Syncretic goddess with a baby, 2nd century, Eastern Roman
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Silver medallion from the altar treasury. Vani, 2nd-1st C BCE Georgia
Source:
Gocha R. Tsetskhaldze; Archaeological investigations in Georgia in the last ten years and some problems of the ancient history of the Eastern Black Sea region [1994] https://www.persee.fr
Medallion with Aphrodite, Varna Museum http://colorsandstones.eu
Anapa, Krasnodar Territory, Aphrodite?; silver, 1st C BCE
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Silver medallion with a winged goddess, from Sisian, Armenia, 2nd-1st C BCE
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Silver brooch medallion with Aphrodite from Artezian, 1st C, Crimea
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Silver medallion, Aphrodite Urania and two Erotes. Kuban
https://colorsandstones.eu/2021/06/11/kuban-krasnodar-territory/
Artemis? silver medallion, Crimea https://pl.pinterest.com/pin/752312312764557303/
Aphrodite https://pl.pinterest.com/pin/752312312764560064/
Silver medallion, Aphrodite and zodiac. Phanagoria [Kuban], 1st century BCE
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Medallion with a winged goddess probably from Eastern Iran, 2nd century BCE. Gilded silver, diameter 12 cm https://www.hermitagemuseum.org
Silver brooch with a bronze needle, 1st C BCE – 2nd C CE
The shield is round, convex, made of a thin silver plate, with a relief bust image of the goddess. The face is shown from the front, on the head there is a headdress or a tiara from under which the hair is shown with a strip with oblique notches, on the shoulders and chest the wrapped chiton is shown with oblique stripes. The figure is framed by a circle filled with small dots, then there are vertical notches in groups, the horizontal outer belt is covered with thin lines filled with a zigzag.
Northern Black Sea region, Rostov Region, Archaeological Museum-Reserve “Tanais” https://archivogram.top/36808536-fibula-broshy
Silver medallion, partly gilded, probably from a pyxis lid. It is welded from several sections and incomplete in part. Depicted in relief is a winged female figure, probably Victory / Nike. She wears a strapless tunic that drapes over the shoulders. The head is turned to the right. The headdress is formed by disorderly braids that frame the face and neck.
Diameter : 7.5 cm. Hellenistic
Greek Hellenistic, Archaeological Museum of Serres, Greece
https://nationalarchive.culture.gr
Gold medallion with Aphrodite, Romania
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Two gold medallions with Aphrodite. Female burials Frontovoe 3, Crimea; 2nd century
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Aphrodite Urania and two Erotes; gold and silver medallions. 1st-2nd century, Gorgippia
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Aphrodite Urania with Eros, a funeral wreath. 2nd-3rd century, Gorgippia
https://colorsandstones.eu/kuban-krasnodar-territory/
https://colorsandstones.eu/diadem-with-a-medallion
Gold medallion from Gorgippia, Aphrodite – Artemis, 1st century
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https://colorsandstones.eu/2024/05/29/funerary-diadem-with-a-medallion-depicting-aphrodite-and-two-erotes-2nd-century-gorgippia-d-b/
https://colorsandstones.eu/2025/01/20/medallion-with-aphrodite-2nd-century-bce-hellenistic-syria-d-b/
https://colorsandstones.eu/2024/11/03/medallion-from-gomphi-greece-roman-period-d-b/
https://colorsandstones.eu/2024/08/12/gold-medallion-with-aphrodite-d-b/
Gold medallion, Aphrodite with Eros
From Kaimakli, Cyprus; 1st C BCE – 1st C CE. Museum of Cyprus
Source https://www.pio.gov.cy
https://colorsandstones.eu/2024/06/08/gold-medallion-with-aphrodite/
Delos, 2nd-1st century BC
https://colorsandstones.eu/2021/12/28/greek-hellenistic-jewelry-from-delos/

Gold medallion, a part of a necklace, with Aphrodite and Eros; 3rd-2nd century BCE. Turkey [confiscated]
Diameter 3.5 cm

Tokat Museum collection 15.08.1983

Source: A Group of Gold Necklaces from Tokat Museum, Ali Yalçın TAVUKÇU, Sümeyra GÖRAL (2020)
Tokat Müzesinden Bir Grup Altın Kolye. Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler
Enstitüsü Dergisi, 24 (3), 1473-1487.

Hellenistic gold medallions, Aphrodite with Eros and two fighting cupids, from the excavations of the ancient city of Troy, on display at Troy Museum, Çanakkale, northwestern Turkey.
Lit.: N. Sevinç, M. Treister, Metalwork from the Dardanos Tumulus, Studia Troica 13, 2003, 215–260.
Photo source https://www.dha.com.tr/foto-galeri/troya-muze

Gold medallion [a chain link] with Aphrodite and Eros; 4th C BCE. Gold and glass, 3.3×2.3 cm (with loops)
ГИМ 54791/679 https://catalog.shm.ru
Together with ГИМ 54791/680 https://catalog.shm.ru

Aphrodite with Eros and a scepter. period: mid-2nd century, diameter: 3,0 cm
Northern Black Sea Coast,
Bosporan Kingdom
Collection: The Hermitage [Item withdrawn from the museum’s online database]
Aphrodite with Eros and a scepter; 3rd-2nd century BCE. Diam. 4,58 cm; 15,1 g. Southern Russia
Collection: Altesmuseum, Berlin https://id.smb.museum
Photo by Sailko
Aphrodite with Eros; 2nd century BCE, diameter: 3,4 cm; thickness: 1,4 cm
Northern Black Sea Coast,
Bosporan Kingdom
Collection: The Hermitage [Item withdrawn from the museum’s online database]
Necklace with a medallion, Aphrodite and Eros. Archaeological Museum Varna, Bulgaria
Photo and info dr Monica Jackson https://drmonicamjackson.wordpress.com/blog/
Diadem with a medallion, Artemis, Greek Hellenistic
Length: 23 cm. Gold
“It consists of three sections connected by thin links. The two extremes are oblong wrought plates with floral decoration of air-leaves, boletus and rosettes. The central panel is square, with a relief bust of Artemis wearing a tunic girdled under her breast and a gourti on her back. Small rings are kept at the ends of the diadem to fasten it to the head. Minor wear on one edge.”
Archaeological Museum of Serres https://nationalarchive.culture.gr
Artemis, 4th C BCE
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Gold necklace with the Medusa and Artemis, Greek, 2nd-1st century BCE
Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany
Tanais, Rostov region [Eastern Black Sea]. Gold, 2nd century BCE
http://rostov-region.ru
Necklace with gold embossed busts of deities (probably Serapis, Isis, Diana, Cybele, Venus (three times) and female figure); Hellenistic
Archaeological Museum of Lamia, [Central] Greece.
Source https://greek-museums.tumblr.com
Gold medallion, Armavir, Armenia, 2nd century BCE
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Gold medallion, Garvir, Armenia
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© Ashmolean Museum
Silver roundels / medallions / from Taxila with an image of a goddess
Goddess with animals – overview
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Gold jewelry from Gerulata (Rusovce), 2nd-4th C
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Gold medallion, diameter: 5,7 cm. 3rd century BC
Found: Panticapaeum. Crimea, the environs of Kerch
Collection: The Hermitage, П.1834-63
Gold Disc with the Head of Athena; height: 18,5 cm; diameter: 7,3 cm (disc).
400-350 BCE; Found: Kul-Oba barrow. Crimea, the environs of Kerch
Collection: The Hermitage, КО.-5
Temple pendants Decorated with a Nereid Sitting on a Hippocamp in the Medallion
height: 15,5 cm, D-7,3 cm (disc)
Created: 4th century BC
Found: Bolshaya Bliznitsa Barrow. Krasnodar Territory, Taman Peninsula, near the Cossack village of Vyshesteblievskaya
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org
From Syria
Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités orientales, AO 24760
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 in the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany
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From auction [read more]
Atargatis, 1st C
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Cybele, 2nd C
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Gold medallion with the depiction of goddess. From Dedoplis Gora, Georgia
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Goddess Luna, fragment of a lintel from Mashara, Syria
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Bust of Selene / Luna, gold; 12 x 10 cm; 1st century BC
© Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva. Photographer: Grégory Maillot
https://onlinecollections.fg-art.org:443
Bust of Isis, gold, second half of the 1st century BCE, Egypt; 3.8x3x1 cm
Basel Antiquities Museum, © Pinacothèque de Paris
©Gorny & Moschhttps://muenzenwoche.de


Gold pendant with a bust of Io. Roman, 1st – 2nd century.
4.89g, ø 3cm, L 3.6cm.
Round medallion with the sculptural, draped bust of Io with cow horns. A wide, reliefed eyelet at the top. A pseudo-granulated, circumferential gold wire on the edge.

Provenance: Acquired in 1981 from the A.C. collection, England. Before that, English art trade in the late 1970s.

Medallion, gold ornament with a sardonyx intaglio depicting head of Apollo in profile.
Tartus, Syria; 275 – 325 CE
In Louvre [read more]
2nd century medallion, gold with garnets and pearls.
ø 2.2 cm [M. Humar] Tomb of Ayn Jawan, National Museum, Riyadh.

Medallions with carved heads

Hellenistic brooch from the Zelenskiy barrow, Kuban
After M. Treister
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Photo by Dan Diffendale
1st century, Saudi Arabia; Thaj city, Tell al-Zayer site
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Aphrodite, Delos, 2nd-1st century BCE
https://colorsandstones.eu/2021/12/28/greek-hellenistic-jewelry-from-delos/

A special case – a pair of gold rings with the image of the goddess Athena, whose face was carved from garnet. Early 3rd century BCE.
They were found in the female burial at the necropolis of Panticapaeum, Crimea, Kerch, together with a gold coin with a portrait of Alexander the Great, a gold wreath with an intaglio and eight rings with colored stones, which adorned each finger of the buried woman (except for the big ones). This custom, alien to the Greeks, can be found in Scythian burial mounds.

Hermitage P.1838-16
L: 5.4 cm
Hermitage P.1838-15
L: 4.8 cm
3rd-4th century burial from Mtskheta, Georgia
Carnelian busts of a woman and two boys.
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Jewelry on sculptures – big frontal brooches
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Women’s belts
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Cybele. White marble, 2nd century; Tunisia
https://colorsandstones.eu/2023/05/07/cybele-medallion-d-b/
“Concavo-convex gold boss formed of two sheets of gold, the upper one folded over the lower; around the rim is a beaded wire; within this is a laurel or myrtle wreath outlined in filigree, with a rosette above and a Herakles knot below; in the center, within a beaded wire, is the head of a maenad in relief, wearing an ivy-wreath, her eyes inlaid with enamel.”
3rd C BCE
www.britishmuseum.org
Medallions with a sun motif
Greco-Roman bracelets with medallions – overview
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Ivory medallions with an image of Nike
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Ivory medallion with Aphrodite, Bactria
Photo after Osmund Bopearachchi
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“Roundel, with head of Apollo as a musician in relief. Surface gilded, eyes once inlaid.”
Greek, Hellenistic,
150-100 BCE
Gilded silver, diameter 7 cm
In the MFA Boston inv. no. 1985.333
https://www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/medias/medias_fichiers/fichiers/pdf/louvre-dossier-presse-alexandre-grand.pdf
Bronze phalera with an image of Dionysus; 1st century BCE – 1st century CE. It was found on the territory of the modern city of Dushanbe.
National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan (Dushanbe)
http://colorsandstones.eu/2021/02/07/priests-little-busts-and-medallions/
Asia Minor, 25-100 CE
in MFA Boston
  • Золотой медальон из Гавара с изображением Исиды-Деметры и Гора-Гарпократа; Hasmik Margaryan https://www.academia.edu
  • Lit.: M. Treister, Synkretische Göttinnen auf dem Schmuckwaren der ersten nachrischtlichen Jahrhunderten aus Phanagoreia und Gorgippia und einige Beobachtungen zur Ikonographie des Aphodite Ourania im Kimmerischen Bosporos https://www.academia.edu
  • M. Treister, Gold Funeral Wreaths of the Bosporan Kingdom 4th c. BC – 5th c. AD. (genesis and chronology of the main types) https://www.academia.edu

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