Colors and Stones

Glass inlaid plaques from the Nanyue King burial. Western Han Dynasty, 202 BCE – 8 CE

• China, SILK ROAD, STEPPE PEOPLES

Bracelets, Liao Dynasty [d/b]

• bracelets db, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db

Necklace with dragon-shaped promotes, Inner Mongolia, Jin Dynasty [d/b]

• DATA BASE, Inner Mongolia, SILK ROAD

Wreath, Han Dynasty [d/b]

• China, DATA BASE, JEWELRY db, SILK ROAD

Diadem / headband with pendants and masks, 2nd C BCE, Greece [d/b]

• DATA BASE, diadem db, GREEK / HELLENISTIC, headband db, JEWELRY db

Bejeweled Aphrodite

• DATA BASE, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Pottery lamp, Syria, 100 CE, Damascus Museum [d/b]

• Damascus Museum, DATA BASE, PALMYRA db, SYRIA, VESSELS

Reliefs with artisans

• DATA BASE

Sumerian and Babylon jewels – overview

• COMPILATIONS / galleries, DATA BASE

Wreaths – overview

• Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, SCULPTURES

Palmyra – Gandhara – a veil

• GANDHARA

Sarcophagus, Etruscan, 250 BCE [d/b]

• DATA BASE, FEMALE BURIAL, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Artist’s workshop, painted panel of a sarcophagus, 1st C BCE, Panticapaeum [d/b]

• DATA BASE

Textiles from Nubia

• DATA BASE, TEXTILES / garments

A sampler for tapestry decorations [d/b]

• DATA BASE, TEXTILES / garments

Textile fragment with an image of Saint Silvanus [d/b]

• DATA BASE, TEXTILES / garments

Isis Noreia, 2nd century, Roman time Austria [d/b]

• DATA BASE, DEITIES, FEMALE portraits db, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, SASH (an ornate band)

Medallion with a bust of a woman, 300-400 CE, Roman time Croatia [d/b]

• DANUBE Limes, DATA BASE, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, SASH (an ornate band)

Relief of a family from Enns, 2nd/3rd C, Roman time Austria [d/b]

• DANUBE Limes, DATA BASE, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures

Girl with attributes of Isis priestess, Roman time Hungary; [discriminalia ornament] [d/b]

• DANUBE Limes, DATA BASE, DISCRIMINALIA ornaments, Jewelry on paintings and sculptures, priestess

Woman wearing a sash / palla. Roman time Hungary [d/b]

• DANUBE Limes, DATA BASE, SASH (an ornate band)

Grave stele of Iulia Valeria, 300-310 CE, Roman time Croatia [d/b]

• DANUBE Limes, DATA BASE, SASH (an ornate band)

Woman wearing an ornate coat (?), 250-350 CE, Roman time Croatia [d/b]

• DANUBE Limes, DATA BASE, SASH (an ornate band)

Woman wearing a sash, 250-300 CE, Roman time Croatia [d/b]

• DANUBE Limes, DATA BASE, SASH (an ornate band)

Ancient gemstones from India and Sri Lanka

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

Mir Zakah, Afghanistan

• AFGHANISTAN db, 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, panel painting, Egypt 2nd C (triptych) [d/b]

• DATA BASE, 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

• AFGHANISTAN db, GANDHARA

private collections

• DATA BASE

Late Antiquity treasure found near Rülzheim, Germany.

• VESSELS

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

Woman with a wig and the ornate clavi, 3rd C [d/b]

• DATA BASE, TEXTILES / garments

Byzantine earrings – chains with pearls

• BYZANTIUM, earrings db

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

Seleucia on the Tigris – notes

• DATA BASE

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, 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

• 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