Colors and Stones

Mosaic with a personification of Tyche, Apamea, Syria [d/b]

• female deities, SYRIA

Funerary relief from Palmyra, 2nd century [Damascus Museum] [d/b]

• Damascus Museum, Palmyra female portraits db, Palmyra, jewelry box

Statue of a woman, Roman time Syria [d/b]

• DISCRIMINALIA ornaments, PALMYRA db, SASH (an ornate band), SYRIA

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

Earring, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China; 2nd-4th C [d/b]

• China, earrings db, SILK ROAD

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, Byzantine, Benaki Museum [d/b]

• bracelets db, BYZANTIUM

Bracelets, wide cuffs, Hellenistic [d/b]

• bracelets db, DATA BASE, GREEK / HELLENISTIC

Earrings, 7th century [d/b]

• earrings db, Medieval

Sewn-in elements, 4th century, Greece [d/b]

• BYZANTIUM, FAYUM, necklace db

Bracelet with garnets, wide cuffs [d/b]

• bracelets db

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

Jewelry of the Bronze Age Syria – Ebla, Mari, Qatna, Ugarit.

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, MEDALLIONS, SYRIA

Vessels with framed figures. Bejeweled cups

• Bejeweled cups, 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

Diadem with three gemstones, 1st C BCE-1st C CE [d/b]

• diadem db, headband db

Big medallion / phalera from the time of Mithridates

• BLACK SEA REGION, MEDALLIONS

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

• DATA BASE, earrings db, SILK ROAD

Art of Tajikistan

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, SILK ROAD, Tajikistan

Neo-Elamite silver beaker [d/b]

• DATA BASE, VESSELS

Sasanian silver cosmetic box [d/b]

• DATA BASE, VESSELS

Brooch of the Lady of Quaregnon

• brooch db, DATA BASE, FEMALE BURIAL, Merovingian

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

Discriminalia hair ornaments in Fayum – overview

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, DISCRIMINALIA ornaments, FAYUM, FEMALE portraits 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 [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