Colors and Stones

3rd-4th century burial from Mtskheta, Georgia

• BLACK SEA REGION, FEMALE BURIAL, GEORGIA, MEDALLIONS

Nimrud, the Queen’s tombs, 9th-8th C BCE

• bracelets db, FEMALE BURIAL, headdress db, MESOPOTAMIA, necklace db

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 – an overview

• Arabia, earrings db, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Region, HATRA, Kazakhstan, PARTHIAN, SYRIA

Herculaneum, wooden ceiling – notes

• Ancient techniques, GEMSTONES, metals, TECHNIQUES, ORNAMENTS / PATTERNS

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, EGYPT, FAYUM db, SCULPTURES

The wooden coffin from Abusir el-Meleq, Egypt, Roman period, 1st C [d/b]

• DATA BASE, EGYPT

Gold pendants, figurines of deities from Egypt

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, DATA BASE, DEITIES, EGYPT, female deities, necklace db

Scythian female headdress – notes

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

Vallerano necropolis, 2nd-3rd century

• brooch db, 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

Translation of PDF from Georgian

• DATA BASE

Torlonia girl

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

Portrait bust of Julia Soaemias Bassiana, 3rd C, Trier [d/b]

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

Diademed bust, an empress Licinia Eudoxia [d/b]

• DATA BASE, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Textile pattern, 500 BCE, Greece [d/b]

• DATA BASE, TEXTILES / garments

Veil of Despoina, 1st C?, Greece [d/b]

• DATA BASE, TEXTILES / garments

Sarcophagus of Larthia Seianti, Etruscan, 150-130 BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, TEXTILES / garments

Bust of Juno, Etruscan, 380 BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, TEXTILES / garments

Woman or goddess, wearing a stephane diadem; Etruscan, Umbria [d/b]

• DATA BASE, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Roman villa of Noheda, 4th C, Spain [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DECORATED ATTIRE sculptures, SASH (an ornate band)

Funerary relief of a couple, woman wearing a sash(?); Roman time Crete [d/b]

• DATA BASE, SASH (an ornate band)

Woman wearing ornate band (sash), 3rd C, Asia Minor [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DECORATED ATTIRE sculptures, SASH (an ornate band)

bust of a woman (?) wearing a sash, 3rd-4th C, Egypt (?) [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DECORATED ATTIRE sculptures, SASH (an ornate band)

Bust of a woman wearing sash, 3rd-4th C, from Balkans (?) [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DECORATED ATTIRE sculptures, SASH (an ornate band)

Juno, 3rd C, Roman [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DECORATED ATTIRE sculptures, SASH (an ornate band)

Hellenistic statue of a muse (?) from the Library of Alexandria [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DECORATED ATTIRE sculptures, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Isis-Urania (Apollo), Roman statuette, in Louvre [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DECORATED ATTIRE sculptures, DEITIES

Fresco from Pompeii, Isis – Fortuna in a sanctuary [d/b]

• DATA BASE

Isis priestess wearing a sash, detail of a fresco from Herculaneum [d/b]

• DATA BASE, SASH (an ornate band)

Stele of Hadea, Beroia, priestess of Isis(?), 3rd C BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE

Isis priestess / devotee wearing a sash, Algieria [d/b]

• DATA BASE, SASH (an ornate band)

Fabia, Isis priestess, Bari, Italy, 100 CE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, priestess

Isis bust from Cyrene [d/b]

• DATA BASE

Roman children with a Horus lock – notes

• DATA BASE

Pre-islamic geometry, part 2

• ORNAMENTS / PATTERNS, SYRIA

Pre-islamic geometry – Coptic art

• ORNAMENTS / PATTERNS

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, EGYPT, 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

Necklace with pearls and emeralds, Pompeii [d/b]

• DATA BASE, JEWELRY db, necklace 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

The Stavropol (Kazinsky) Hoard, 4th-2nd C BCE

• necklace db, STEPPE PEOPLES, torque / torc db

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

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