Palmyra similarities – COLORS & STONES

Medallions with a sun motif

Medallion with Cybele, 2nd century [auction] [d/b]

Sarmatian brooches from Hungary

Bracelet [cuffs], 2nd-3rd century, Syria [d/b]

Jewelry from Syria – Late antique / Byzantine period [4th century +]

Gold brooch with an intaglio, Tartus, Roman time Syria [d/b]

Brooch with sardonyx, 3rd century, Syria [d/b]

Medallion with sardonyx, 3rd century, Syria [d/b]

Brooch with sapphire, 1st-2nd century [d/b]

Gold brooch from Khisfin [Damascus Museum] [d/b]

Brooch-medallion from Kythnos, Greece [d/b]

Medallion from Ur [Iraq], Temple of Sin, 700-500 BCE [d/b]

The “blessing” gesture – a sign of horns

Skyphos from Syria [d/b]

Terracotta scyphus from the Mithraeum at Hawarte [d/b]

Massive bracelets of the Roman period

Enameled wheel-shaped brooches from Sarmatian burials

Brooch / medallion, 4th century, Ukraine [d/b]

Hegra / Mada’in Saleh. Nabatean and Roman time Arabia

Leather straps, cord

Staritsa burial mound, the Astrakhan region. Female burial, Sarmatian, 2nd century

Jar [piece], Parthian, 3rd century [d/b]

Roman? silver bowl, 3rd century [d/b]

Medallions – Gallery

Brooches Roman era – overview

Roman time female burials Frontovoe 3, Crimea

Sarmatian disc brooches with pendants. Notes

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

Bracelet with garnets, wide cuffs [d/b]

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

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

Necklace with a lunula pendant, Syria; Byzantine, 600 CE [d/b]

Tyche from Kilyos; discriminalia [d/b]

Pendant, central Asia, 5th-6th C [d/b]

Segmented jewelry. Necklace or a diadem? Segmented necklaces with larger centerpiece. From Greece to China

Palmyra – Gandhara – a veil

Kushan – Parthian costume

Parthians in Gandhara – notes

Sewn-on ornaments with geometric patterns

3rd-4th century burial from Mtskheta, Georgia

Hatra – sculptures

Scythian female headdress – notes

Al-Lat, camels and Hatra [notes]

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

Jewelry from ancient Tomis, Romania

Artezian treasure, Bosporan Kingdom

Yemen and Arabia, notes on ancient jewelry

Ancient treasures from the Al Thani Collection

Mosaic from 3rd century Syria, , Osrhoene region

Textile sampler. “Roman” type with an “architectural” ornament

Jewelry on sculptures and the real examples – Roman time Syria

Byzantine bracelets, wide cuffs from Thessaloniki