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Sarmatian triangular earrings – an overview

Photo after M. Tonkova

Earrings from Buzău, Romania, 1st century [read more]

©Вінницький обласний краєзнавчий музей

Temporal pendants. 
Gold, glass. 1st century. From a barrow near the village of Porogi, Yampil district, Vinnytsia region, Ukraine
Скроневі підвіски. Золото, скло.
І ст. н.е

©Вінницький обласний краєзнавчий музей

Temporal pendants. 
Gold, glass.
1st century. From a barrow near the village of Porogi, Yampil district, Vinnytsia region, Ukraine

Скроневі підвіски. Золото, скло.
І ст. н.е

the Volgograd Regional Museum

Sarmatian earrings https://ratanews.ru/news/news_21102020_8.stm

Walters Museum
VO.60 (57.382, 57.383)

5.8 cm, gold and gemstones
From Olbia, Ukraine; 1st century BCE

Gold earrings with amber-colored glass inlays, the Ilovlinsky district of the Volgograd region, Russia
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Gold earrings with glass inlay and figurine, found in a woman’s grave at the necropolis of Ust-Alma; 2nd century

https://colorsandstones.eu

Photo after I. Khrapunov 2008

Cemetery of Nyzats, Crimea, 4th century [read more]

[read more] 1st century, Tauric Chersonesos

Ukraine, 2nd-4th century [read more]

Gold triangular earring with amethyst and glass paste inlays, found in Adamclisi, Romania, 2nd century [read more]

©Azov Museum-Reserve

2nd/3rd century [read more]

https://shveda.ru/drevnie-ukrashenija-donskih-stepej-v-kaliningrade/

Earrings with pendants (figurine depicting Attis, gold, glass),
presumably the 1st century CE
Rostov Regional Museum of Local Lore

https://shveda.ru/drevnie-ukrashenija-donskih-stepej-v-kaliningrade/

Earrings and ring with pendants and inserts (gold, garnet, paste),
presumably the first centuries CE
Rostov Regional Museum of Local Lore

Краснодарский край. Анапа. Передано из КГБ СССР в 1982 г.
https://vladimirdar.livejournal.com

Gold and glass, 1st-2nd century
Anapa, Krasnodar Region

British Museum 1923,0716.11

Late 3rd – 4th century
Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine
“Gold earring pendant of triangular sheet: 2 tear-shaped collared garnet below 1 green glass cabochons; heavily enriched with twisted and beaded wire and triangles of granulation across base; three hollow, U-shaped pendants on chains at base.”

Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier
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Gold woven chain triangular earrings with pendants and garnet insets. Jewelry of the Black Sea nomads (Sarmatian?), 4th Century AD – 5th Century AD. Found in 1904 AD, in Kerc, the ancient Pantikapeion. Roman-Germanic Museum (Römisch-Germanisches Museum), Köln, Germany.

Vitalie Bârcă, THE REINTERPRETATION OF THE SARMATIAN FINDS FROM THE ROMANIAN PLAIN (I), Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2/1, 2015, p. 35-71. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14795/j.v2i1.105
From a Thracian burial of high priestess Leseskepra from Anchialo, Bulgaria;1st C BCE-1st C CE
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