Ancient gemstones from India and Sri Lanka

• Bejeweled cups, GANDHARA, Gemstones, GEMSTONES, metals, TECHNIQUES, SILK ROAD

Mir Zakah, Afghanistan

• JEWELRY db, SILK ROAD

Priest of Isis? a man wearing sash, shroud, Egypt [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db, SASH (an ornate band)

Isis priestess, Asyut, Egypt, 2nd C [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db, priestess

Isis suckling Harpocrates, painting, 20 BCE, Egypt [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db, female deities

Kushan – Parthian costume

• COSTUMES, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, PARTHIAN, Uzbekistan

Gandhara – Tillya Tepe / Afghanistan similarities

• GANDHARA

Parthians in Gandhara – notes

• GANDHARA, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, PARTHIAN

Sewn-on ornaments with geometric patterns

• BLACK SEA REGION, COMPILATIONS / galleries, COSTUMES, HATRA, JEWELRY db, ORNAMENTS / PATTERNS, PALMYRA, PARTHIAN, UKRAINE

Egyptian official in a Persian costume – notes

• COSTUMES, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, MESOPOTAMIA, pectoral db, torque / torc db

Ornaments of Thrace

• Ancient techniques, BLACK SEA REGION, Bulgaria, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, VESSELS

Hawarte paintings – notes

• Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, SYRIA

Palmyra reliefs – women with children. Overview

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, PALMYRA, Palmyra female portraits db, Palmyra women with children

Silver augur staff, 3rd/4th C, Roman time Hungary, Pannonia [d/b]

• DANUBE Limes, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db

Gonio treasure, Roman time Georgia

• BLACK SEA REGION, COMPILATIONS / galleries, GEORGIA

“Ancient Gold Work from Chicago Collections”

• EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Region, PARTHIAN

3rd-4th century burial from Mtskheta, Georgia

• BLACK SEA REGION, FEMALE BURIAL, GEORGIA, MEDALLIONS

Nimrud

• MESOPOTAMIA

Ancient Iraq – Mesopotamia

• HATRA, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, MESOPOTAMIA, PARTHIAN

Hatra – sculptures

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, HATRA, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, PARTHIAN, priest, TEXTILES / garments

Parthian jewelry – notes

• BLACK SEA REGION, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Region, HATRA, Kazakhstan, MY FAVORITE TOPICS, PARTHIAN, SILK ROAD, STEPPE PEOPLES, SYRIA

Hama region, Syria – illegal excavations 2018-2019

• SYRIA

Ukraine history – literature, museums, websites – database

• BLACK SEA REGION, COMPILATIONS / galleries, UKRAINE

Steppe peoples – sources

• Kazakhstan, SARMATIAN, SILK ROAD, STEPPE PEOPLES

Wooden statues of Serapis. Ptolemaic Egypt [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db, SCULPTURES

Scythian female headdress – notes

• BLACK SEA REGION, ORNAMENTS / PATTERNS, priestess, SARMATIAN, STEPPE PEOPLES, TEXTILES / garments, UKRAINE

Vallerano necropolis, 2nd-3rd century

• DATA BASE, FEMALE BURIAL, PALMYRA, ring db, SILK ROAD

A Report on the Confiscation of Looted Palmyrene Funerary Reliefs in Idlib

• PALMYRA, Palmyra - reports, PALMYRA db, Palmyra female portraits db, Palmyra Museum, Palmyra priests db

Glass and gemstone inlays – timeline. Notes

• BLACK SEA REGION, STEPPE PEOPLES, UKRAINE

Jewelry from a burial at Majiayuan [Tomb M18], Gansu, China. The Warring States Period (480 – 221 BCE)

• China, FEMALE BURIAL, SILK ROAD

Pre-islamic geometry, part 2

• ORNAMENTS / PATTERNS, SYRIA

Ankh or Ansa – Fayum type mummy shrouds and portraits

• FAYUM, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Golden girl, sarcophagus Hawara, 2nd C, Museum Cairo [d/b]

• DATA BASE, EGYPT, FAYUM db, FEMALE BURIAL, priestess

Sarcophagus, wood with painted linen, Egypt, 4th C [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db

Girl with pearls, Fayum portrait, in Bonn [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db

Linen shroud, a man with a nimbus, Roman time Egypt [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db

Linen shroud, Roman time Egypt [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db

Mummy shroud, Akhmim, 2nd C [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db

Shroud of a woman, Akhimin, 1st C [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db

Fayum portrait of a woman, 2nd-3rd C [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db

Fayum portrait of a child, 4th century [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FAYUM db

Al-Lat, camels and Hatra [notes]

• DEITIES, female deities, HATRA, Kazakhstan, SILK ROAD

“Regina Vasorum”, 4th C BCE, Magna Graecia

• DATA BASE, Magna Graecia

Fayum portraits – the necklace-like head ornaments. Overview

• FAYUM, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, MY FAVORITE TOPICS

Migration Period – Black Sea region and Hunnic diadems

• BLACK SEA REGION, diadem db, Huns, STEPPE PEOPLES, UKRAINE

Greek, Hellenistic and Roman jewelry in Turkey

• BLACK SEA REGION

Dura Europos, wall paintings from the House of the Banquet, 194 CE

• DURA EUROPOS

Greek Hellenistic jewelry from Delos, 1st century BCE

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Region, MEDALLIONS, necklace db

Syria – Africa connections. Notes

• DATA BASE, SYRIA

Mithras, an Amazon

• COSTUMES, DEITIES, DURA EUROPOS, PARTHIAN, TEXTILES / garments

Sarmatian necklaces

• BLACK SEA REGION, COMPILATIONS / galleries, PARTHIAN, SARMATIAN, SILK ROAD, torque / torc db, UKRAINE

Parthian ivory rhytons from Old Nisa, 3rd – 2nd C BCE

• EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Region, PARTHIAN, SILK ROAD, VESSELS

New statue of Kanishka, Gandhara, 2nd-3rd C

• COSTUMES, GANDHARA, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Sarmatian jewelry from Banat, Great Hungarian Plain / Pannonia (Romania, Hungary, Serbia)

• BLACK SEA REGION, DANUBE Limes, Romania, SARMATIAN

Jewelry from ancient Tomis, Romania

• BLACK SEA REGION, COMPILATIONS / galleries, FEMALE BURIAL, JEWELRY db, MEDALLIONS, Romania

Matrona’s Box. Jewels of the Roman Era from the Collection of the State Hermitage

• BLACK SEA REGION, BLACK SEA region db, JEWELRY db

Hellenistic brooches from auction

• BLACK SEA region db, brooch db, SARMATIAN

Artezian treasure, Bosporan Kingdom

• BLACK SEA REGION, BLACK SEA region db, DEITIES, female deities, JEWELRY db

Yemen and Arabia, notes on ancient jewelry

• Arabia, CAMELS

Ancient treasures from the Al Thani Collection

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, FEMALE portraits db, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, SILK ROAD

Chungul Kurgan – notes

• Bejeweled cups, BLACK SEA REGION, MY FAVORITE TOPICS, STEPPE PEOPLES, UKRAINE, VESSELS

Scythian conical cups – vessels or a headdress? – Overview

• Bejeweled cups, BLACK SEA REGION, MY FAVORITE TOPICS, STEPPE PEOPLES, UKRAINE, VESSELS

Stolen from Palmyra, Syria.

• PALMYRA, Palmyra - reports, Palmyra female portraits db, Palmyra men db, Palmyra Museum, SYRIA