Costumes of Central Asia – gallery

• COSTUMES, DATA BASE, SILK ROAD

Gold medallion from Tell Bazi, Syria, 14th-13th C BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, MEDALLIONS, SYRIA

Bronze age jewelry molds / matrixes from Syria.

• DATA BASE, MATRIX mold, MATRIX mold db, SYRIA

Pendant from Ugarit, Syria, 15th-13th C BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, pendant db, SYRIA

Necklace with agate intaglio, 1st century BCE, Armenia [d/b]

• ARMENIA, DATA BASE, necklace db

Temple motif finger-ring [d/b]

• DATA BASE, ring db

Medallion with a cameo from Viminacium, Roman time Serbia [d/b]

• DATA BASE, MEDALLIONS

Palmyra, 2nd century [RGM Cologne] [d/b]

• DATA BASE, PALMYRA db, Palmyra female portraits db

Portrait of a woman from Palmyra, 2nd/3rd C [Milan] [d/b]

• DATA BASE, Palmyra female portraits db

Hittite art, Tell Halaf, Syria

• DATA BASE, MESOPOTAMIA, SYRIA

Portrait of a woman wearing a diadem, Palmyra, 3rd century [KHM Wien] [d/b]

• DATA BASE, PALMYRA, Palmyra female portraits db

Bara, son of Zebida, funerary relief from Palmyra, 3rd century [KHM Wien] [d/b]

• DATA BASE, PALMYRA db, Palmyra men db

Palmyra, funerary relief of a woman, 2nd century [KHM Wien] [d/b]

• DATA BASE, Palmyra female portraits db

Necklace, 3rd century, Roman time Bulgaria [d/b]

• BLACK SEA REGION, Bulgaria, DATA BASE, necklace db

The Thracian tomb in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. Quick notes

• BLACK SEA REGION, Bulgaria, DATA BASE, THRACIAN

Diadem from Panticapaeum / Kerch, Hellenistic, 300 BCE [d/b]

• BLACK SEA REGION, DATA BASE, diadem db, GREEK / HELLENISTIC

Bracelet, Hellenistic [d/b]

• bracelets db, DATA BASE, GREEK / HELLENISTIC

“Beauty of Palmyra”, relief [Glyptotek] [d/b]

• DATA BASE, Palmyra female portraits db

Stele from Syria, Roman, 2nd century. For sale in Vienna [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FEMALE portraits db, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, SYRIA

Pair of the 4th century bracelets from Syria [Saint Louis & Berlin museums] [d/b]

• bracelets db, BYZANTIUM, DATA BASE, SYRIA

Bejeweled cups – bowls from Hellenistic Italy

• Bejeweled cups, DATA BASE, GREEK / HELLENISTIC, VESSELS

Etruscan headband, 6th-5th century BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, ETRUSCAN, headband db

Earring with a beaded border, Egypt, 14th century BCE

• DATA BASE, earrings db, EGYPT

What can be made of a strip of sheet metal

• Ancient techniques, bracelets db, DATA BASE

Roman portrait of a woman [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FEMALE portraits db, headdress db, priestess

Roman portrait of a woman [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FEMALE portraits db, headdress db, priestess

Gold mask from Boma

• China, DATA BASE, Huns, STEPPE PEOPLES

Ring with a ruby, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China; 2nd-4th C [d/b]

• China, DATA BASE, GANDHARA, ring db, SILK ROAD

Byzantine clasp from Romanovskaya [d/b]

• BYZANTIUM, DATA BASE

Greek, Hellenistic jewelry from Palaikastron, Greece

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, DATA BASE, GREEK / HELLENISTIC

Jeweler’s tools from Thessaloniki, Byzantine period.

• Ancient techniques, BYZANTIUM, DATA BASE, MATRIX mold

Earring, Hellenistic [d/b]

• DATA BASE, earrings db

Bracelets, wide cuffs, Hellenistic [d/b]

• bracelets db, DATA BASE, GREEK / HELLENISTIC

Ring with a seven-pointed star. Roman time Germany, 4th C [d/b]

• DATA BASE, ring db

The Trier painted ceiling – quick notes

• DATA BASE

Necklace from Šarkamen, the very end of the 3rd century [d/b]

• DATA BASE, necklace db

Merovingian silver necklace, 5th century [d/b]

• BYZANTIUM, DATA BASE, FEMALE BURIAL, necklace db

Byzantine earrings with a pearl border

• BYZANTIUM, DATA BASE, earrings db

Oman [d/b]

• DATA BASE, earrings db

Xiongnu belt ornaments, Burkhan tolgoi site [d/b]

• Belt / buckle / plaques, DATA BASE, Xiongnu

Xiongnu earrings from the TUH [Tamirin ulaan hushuu] cemetery, Mongolia

• DATA BASE, earrings db, Mongolia, SILK ROAD, STEPPE PEOPLES, Xiongnu

Apahida treasure and the vessels repaired with gold. 5th century, Romania

• BLACK SEA REGION, DATA BASE, VESSELS

Roman ring, from Petra [d/b]

• DATA BASE, ring db

Ancient Arabia – notes

• Arabia, DATA BASE, FEMALE BURIAL, MEDALLIONS

Pendant, Gandhara [Osmund Bopearachchi], ca 100 BCE [d/b]

• brooch db, DATA BASE, GANDHARA, MEDALLIONS, pendant db

Hellenistic period earrings with garnet and turquoise [d/b]

• DATA BASE, earrings db, SILK ROAD

Neo-Elamite silver beaker [d/b]

• DATA BASE, VESSELS

Sasanian silver cosmetic box [d/b]

• DATA BASE, VESSELS

Necklace from Karashamb, Armenia; 2200-2000 BCE [d/b]

• ARMENIA, DATA BASE, necklace db

Wide cuffs, arm bracelets, and bracers of the steppe peoples.

• bracelets db, DATA BASE, STEPPE PEOPLES

Fayum type portrait of a woman, ca 140-160 [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DISCRIMINALIA ornaments, FAYUM db

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

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

• AFGHANISTAN db, DATA BASE, GANDHARA

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