Necklace with a lunula pendant, Syria; Byzantine, 600 CE [d/b]

• BYZANTIUM, DATA BASE, DISCRIMINALIA ornaments, SYRIA

Majiayuan cemetery, Gansu, China – various ornaments and jewelry. The Warring States Period

• China, DATA BASE, STEPPE PEOPLES

M16 tomb, Majiayuan cemetery, Gansu Province, China, 4th-3rd century BCE [wide bracelet]

• bracelets db, China, DATA BASE, STEPPE PEOPLES

Jewelry from Mes Aynak, 500-700 CE [d/b]

• AFGHANISTAN db, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db

An earring from Mes Aynak, Afghanistan [d/b]

• AFGHANISTAN db, DATA BASE, earrings db, SILK ROAD

Tomb of Opaka Sabaleida, Apulia, Magna Graecia, 3rd-2nd century BCE

• FEMALE BURIAL, Magna Graecia

“Two Greek Bracelets with Greek Inscriptions found in Hellenised Central Asia” [Ketos motif in jewelry]

• AFGHANISTAN db, DATA BASE, GANDHARA

Ornament / medallion, 3rd century, China, Han Dynasty [d/b]

• China, MEDALLIONS

Priestess from Macedonia; 7th century BCE

• DATA BASE, FEMALE BURIAL, VESSELS

Greco-Roman bracelets with medallions – overview

• bracelets db, COMPILATIONS / galleries, DATA BASE, MEDALLIONS

Jewelry at Beth Shean – necklace [d/b]

• BYZANTIUM, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db, necklace db

The first Early Byzantine gold treasure from Odessos (Varna, Bulgaria), 6th century

• Bulgaria, BYZANTIUM, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db

Scythian jewelry, the Zaporozhye region, Ukraine, 1st-2nd century [d/b]

• Belt / buckle / plaques, BLACK SEA REGION, DATA BASE, UKRAINE

Gold belt, Opava region, Czechia, 14th century BCE

• Belt / buckle / plaques, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db

Red shawl

• COSTUMES, DATA BASE, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Pompeiopolis, a mosaic with a goddess; 3rd-4th century [d/b]

• Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Silver medallion, Phanagoria [Kuban], 1st century BCE female burial [d/b]

• BLACK SEA region db, DATA BASE, FEMALE BURIAL, MEDALLIONS

Scythian / Sarmatian cuff bracelets [d/b]

• bracelets db, DATA BASE, SARMATIAN, SCYTHIAN, STEPPE PEOPLES

Portrait of a priestess, Ostia Antica [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FEMALE portraits db, priestess, SCULPTURES

Nemesis – notes

• DEITIES, female deities

Lebanon

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, DATA BASE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Region, VESSELS

Medallion with Aphrodite, Varna Museum, Bulgaria [d/b]

• Bulgaria, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db, MEDALLIONS

Wreath, gold and lapis lazuli [d/b]

• AFGHANISTAN db, DATA BASE, GANDHARA, headdress db, SILK ROAD

Lunula with emerald [d/b]

• DATA BASE, JEWELRY db

Inlaid silver belt, 1st century CE

• Belt / buckle / plaques, DATA BASE, SARMATIAN, STEPPE PEOPLES

Gold pectoral from Armavir, Armenia; 5th-4th century BCE [d/b]

• ARMENIA, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db, necklace db, pectoral db

Uzbekistan, an ossuary, seating man with a torc / pectoral [d/b]

• DATA BASE, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, torque / torc db, Uzbekistan

Assyria – jewelry on sculptures and its real examples.

• Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, MESOPOTAMIA

Assur, tomb 45, 14th-13th C BCE

• earrings db, MESOPOTAMIA, necklace db

Jewelry from Syria, Assyrian period

• earrings db, MESOPOTAMIA, SYRIA

Leaves as a motif in art

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, GANDHARA, ORNAMENTS / PATTERNS

Buckle with the Gods Hariti and Pancika, 4th century, Taxila [d/b]

• Belt / buckle / plaques, DATA BASE, GANDHARA

Silver medallion with a syncretic goddess [Private collection] [d/b]

• DATA BASE, MEDALLIONS

Harappa, jewelry; 2500 BCE [d/b]

• bracelets db, DATA BASE, PARTHIAN

Proto-Elamite silver figurine of kneeling bull; 3100–2900 BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, MESOPOTAMIA

Elamite [?] figurine of kneeling deity, Miho Museum [d/b]

• DATA BASE, MESOPOTAMIA

Silver hair pin in the shape of seated woman from Gonur Depe, Margiana (Bactria), 18th-15th C BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, hair ornament db, SILK ROAD, Turkmenistan

Elamite silver vessel with female figures, 2200 BCE, Iran [d/b]

• DATA BASE, MESOPOTAMIA, VESSELS

Elamite silver vessel [d/b]

• DATA BASE, MESOPOTAMIA, VESSELS

Takht-i Kuwad, Tajikistan [Oxus Treasure]

• SILK ROAD, Tajikistan, VESSELS

Female images Mesopotamia – Gonur Tepe [Turkmenistan]

• COSTUMES, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, MESOPOTAMIA, SILK ROAD, Turkmenistan

Gonur Depe, Margiana (Bactria), 18th-15th C BCE

• SILK ROAD, Turkmenistan

Rankenfrau from Palmyra

• BLACK SEA REGION, PALMYRA, UKRAINE

Rectangular plaques with the image of the goddess

• Belt / buckle / plaques, COMPILATIONS / galleries, ETRUSCAN, JEWELRY db

King Aspelta’s decorated alabastron, 6th century BCE, Nubia

• Bejeweled cups, VESSELS

Etruscan necklace, 4th century BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, JEWELRY db, necklace db

Greco-Roman Jewelry from the Necropolis of Qasrawet (Sinai) and Mampsis (Israel). Nabatean earrings [d/b]

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, earrings db, FEMALE BURIAL, Nabatean, SYRIA

Carnelian rings

• DANUBE Limes, JEWELRY db, ring db

Segment of a necklace from Silivri [Selymbria] [d/b]

• BYZANTIUM, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db, necklace db

Priestess statue from Paros, 2nd century [d/b]

• FEMALE portraits db, priestess

Gold ring with Cybele in a naikos [d/b]

• DATA BASE, JEWELRY db, ring db

Tyche Fortuna and Tyche of Caesarea Maritima.

• DEITIES, female deities

Zeus and Ganymede, Hellenistic jewelry [d/b]

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, DATA BASE, earrings db, JEWELRY db

Greek / Hellenistic earrings with a siren [d/b]

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, DATA BASE, earrings db, JEWELRY db

Korea – quick notes

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, Korea, SILK ROAD

Earrings, 2nd century BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, earrings db, JEWELRY db

Ornament similarities. Ur – Mathura

• Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, SILK ROAD

Scallop shell pyxis from the Golyama Kosmatka Tumulus; Bulgaria [d/b]

• BLACK SEA REGION, Bulgaria, DATA BASE, VESSELS

Half-figure images of women from Bosporan Kingdom

• BLACK SEA REGION, BLACK SEA region db, FEMALE portraits db, SCULPTURES

Gilded mask-shaped buckle with turquoise inlays; Tsaraam cemetery in Buryatia, Xiongnu Royal burial [d/b]

• Belt / buckle / plaques, DATA BASE, Mongolia, SILK ROAD, STEPPE PEOPLES, Xiongnu

Portrait of a girl from Fayum wearing a discriminalia hair ornament [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DISCRIMINALIA ornaments, FAYUM db

Paphos – notes

• DATA BASE

‘Royal’ Xiongnu / Khünnü tomb excavated in Zavkhan province, Mongolia

• Mongolia, SILK ROAD

Stolen art from Syria [Palmyra]

• PALMYRA, Palmyra - reports, PALMYRA db, Palmyra sarcophagus db