Ancient Jewels and Jewelry

Jewels and jewelry from days of old

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Pair of gold Roman earrings featuring garnets, emeralds and glass, c. 2nd to 3rd centuries CE. From Bonhams.

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Persian electrum bracelet featuring ram’s heads at terminals, c. mid-1st millennium BCE. From Bonhams.

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Egyptian amethyst and faience necklace featuring a feldspar scarab at the center c. 2nd to 1st millennia BCE. Modern stringing. From Bonhams.

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Roman Egyptian millefiori glass beads, c. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. From Christie’s Auctions

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Western Asiatic silver and electrum pendant in the shape of an antelope c. 8th to 6th centuries BCE. From Christie’s Auctions.

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Late Classical to early Hellenistic period Greek gold olive wreath, c. 4th century BCE. From Christie’s Auctions.

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Etruscan gold amulet featuring a flint arrowhead, c. 5th century BCE. From the collection of Thorvaldsens Museum.

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Etruscan amulet made of gold and featuring a shark’s tooth, c. 5th century BCE. From the collection of Thorvaldsens Museum.

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Gold Etruscan ring featuring incised griffin image c. 6th century BCE. From the collection of Thorvalsens Museum.

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Gold and pearl Roman ring, c. 200-400 CE. From Thorvaldsens Museum

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Etruscan gold ring, c. 525-330 BCE. From the collection of Thorvaldsens Museum.

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Gold and pearl 4th century Roman finger ring. From the collection of Thorvaldsens Museum.

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Cypriot gold arm band featuring rows of circles with 5-petaled flowers, c. 1300 BCE. From the collection of the World Museum.

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One of a pair of ancient Egyptian deep blue glass earrings featuring a yellow and light blue twist on the edge of the hoop. Dates to the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1479-1425 BCE. From the collection of the World Museum.

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Gold pendant in the shape of a boar. Achaemenid Iran, c. 550-330 BCE. From the collection of The Oriental Institute at The University of Chicago.

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Pair of Hellenistic Greek gold, glass, and stone earrings featuring an Egyptian Atef crown motif, c. 3rd-2nd centuries BCE. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Gold Egyptian lotus-blossom pendant, Amarna Period, c. 1353-1336 BCE. From Timeline Auctions