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$90.00 Shipping Location: Barcelona, Spain 3 OLD ROMAN BRACELETS. ROMAN EMPIRE. CENTURIES I-IIAD. ORIGIN ROMAN EMPIRE. PERIOD I-II CENTURIES AFTER CHRIST. STYLE ROMAN. ROMAN CULTURE. ONE OF THE ... moreBRACELETS IN THE SHAPE OF "TORQUE", TYPE INHERITED FROM THE HALLSTALTIC PERIOD (IRON AGE).
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$6.99 Shipping Condition: New other (see details) Location: Lummi Island, United States As early as the Naqada I Period, predynastic Egyptians imported obsidian from Ethiopia, used to shape blades and other objects from flakes. Royal Nubian ... moreburials at Qustul produced artifacts bearing the oldest-known examples of Egyptian dynastic symbols, such as the white crown of Egypt and falcon.
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$8.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States The Scythian languages belonged to the Eastern branch of the Iranian languages. The "classical Scythians" known to ancient Greek historians were located ... morein the northern Black Sea and Caucasus regions.
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$10.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States Most of these objects have never before been published, making this catalogue essential for the scholar. Where pertinent, bibliographic references and ... morecomparative material are cited. Graeco-Phoenician Scarabs.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Then, with the founding of Greek trading colonies along the Thracian coasts of the Aegean and Black Seas after 700 B.C. Thrace entered recorded history. ... moreSitalkes and his powerful successors grew rich on tribute, eventually surpassing even Athens in revenue.
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$10.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States HISTORY OF ROMAN PANNONIA : Pannonia was an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, bordering Noricum and upper Italy ... moreto the west, and Dalmatia and upper Moesia to the south.
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$7.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Publisher: Dallas Museum of Art (1997). Pages: 150. Major types of Greek and Etruscan jewelry from the seventh to the first centuries B.C. are well represented, ... morealong with a few Roman imperial works.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : You don't want to miss "From Ishtar to Aphrodite: 3200 Years of Cypriot Hellenism. Treasures from the Cyprus Museum" now at the Onassis Cultural ... moreCenter in New York. The 85 artifacts on display are exceptional in themselves and most have never been seen outside of Cyprus before, including a first-century marble torso of Aphrodite that is the exhibition's hallmark.
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$16.49 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : Finger rings call upon the arts of the goldsmith. Engraver, and jeweler. It was Charlemagne who stopped the custom of burying the dead with their ... moreweapons and jewelry because all the wealth was going into the ground instead of into the treasury.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : Many aspects of the Etruscan civilization remain a mystery, because so much of it was ignored by the Romans and purposely destroyed by Christians. ... moreEtruscan Granulation by Gerhard Nestler. REVIEW : Excellent reference book for professors, students, and jewelers.
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$7.99 Shipping Condition: New Location: Ferndale, United States However by the 6th century the Continental Celtic languages were no longer in wide use. This book uses the artwork of the Celtic Tarot, but it can also ... morebe used equally effectively alongside any other Tarot deck.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States These dramatic chronicles date back to the Middle Ages, but they are truly much older than that. CELTIC DRUIDS : The Druids were an educated class of ... morethe Celtic people. The Celtic were a people that originated from beyond the Caspian Sea.
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$10.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States In the ancient world ruby was believed to possess magical powers, and was worn as a talisman for protection from plagues, poison, sorrow, and evil spirits. ... moreThe ruby symbolized freedom, charity, dignity and divine power, and was associated with fire and blood, implying warmth and life for mankind.
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$10.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States Lion Rhyton and Related Rhyta. Recent digs in Belsk, Ukraine uncovered a vast city believed to be the Scythian capital Gelonus described by Herodotus. ... moreA kurgan or burial mound near the village of Ryzhanovka in Ukraine, 75 mi (121 km) south of Kiev, found in the 1990s has revealed one of the few unlooted tombs of a Scythian chieftain, who was ruling in the forest-steppe area of the western fringe of Scythian lands.
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$10.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States With a technical glossary, extensive bibliography, map, and chronological table, this is a landmark publication. Although faience was made of common materials, ... moreespecially quartz sand grains or crushed quartz pebbles, it nevertheless took on the splendor of gold or semiprecious gems.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : The sixteenth century saw a flowering of classical painting in Persia. Chinese-style rocks and trees mingle with Islamic calligraphy and Persian ... morelegends. May I suggest Anthony Welch's two books "Artists for the Shah" and "Shah `Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan", "Persian Drawings" by B. W. Robinson, and "Persian Painting" by Basil Gray.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States However by the 6th century the Continental Celtic languages were no longer in wide use. Physical evidence exists for the ritual importance of the severed ... morehead at the religious center at Roquepertuse (southern France).
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States I have made many finds over the years, but this is my first coin hoard.”. (Dave Crisp) Archaeologists believe the hoard will rewrite the history books. ... moreOne of the most important aspects of the hoard is that it contains a large group of coins of Carausius, who ruled Britain independently from AD286 to AD293, and was the first Roman emperor ever to strike coins in Britain.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States From across the river there is the beautiful legend of the Drachenfels, the “Dragon’s Rock”, where once dwelled a hideous monster. Passing the grim fortress ... moreof Stolzenfels, we read a strange take of alchemy.
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$6.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States Author Kenneth Lapatin studied Greek art and archaeology at the University of California, Berkley; at Oxford; and in Athens as a Fulbright Scholar. He ... moreis currently Assistant Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum Malibu, California.
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$9.99 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Lummi Island, United States Publisher: Oxford University Press (1978). Pages: 134. The Oxford University collection of Greek, Etruscan and Roman gems and rings is one of the most ... morerepresentative in the world. REVIEW : Oxford University's collection of Greek, Etruscan and Roman gems and rings, in the Ashmolean Museum, is one of the most representative in the world.
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$7.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States The country was considered the most suitable for the manufacture of such commodities. As the distillation of alcohol was not known until the fourth century ... moreBC the scents were extracted by steeping plants, flowers or splinters of fragrant wood in oil to obtain essential oil, which would then be added to other oils or fat.
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$9.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States In the ancient world ruby was believed to possess magical powers, and was worn as a talisman for protection from plagues, poison, sorrow, and evil spirits. ... moreThe ruby symbolized freedom, charity, dignity and divine power, and was associated with fire and blood, implying warmth and life for mankind.
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$11.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States Publisher: Cromwell (1991). Pages: 228. Jewellery in Moesia and Thrace During the Roman Period. REVIEW : What a remarkable book! Gorgeous photos, and ... morelots of them. Exquisite Roman jewelry from provincial Thrace and Moesia.
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$11.60 Shipping Location: Sonoita, United States 4 Ancient Roman bronze bracelets. The 3 "D" shaped bracelets have finely detailed designs near the cuff ends that are slightly flared, a nice bronze-smith ... moredetail. 3 1/8", 2 7/8", 2 7/8". The round bracelet has nice cuff ends and filed design near the cuff ends 2 3/8".
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The pectoral is gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which were ... morepresented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$9.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States With a technical glossary, extensive bibliography, map, and chronological table, this is a landmark publication. Although faience was made of common materials, ... moreespecially quartz sand grains or crushed quartz pebbles, it nevertheless took on the splendor of gold or semiprecious gems.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish"Jewels of the Pharaohs: ... moreEgyptian jewelry of the Dynastic Period" by Cyril Aldred. NOTE: We have 75.000 books in our library, almost 10,000 different titles. Odds are we have other copies of this same title in varying conditions, some less expensive, some better condition. We might also have different editions as well(some paperback, some hardcover, oftentimes international editions) If you don’t see what you want, please contact us and ask. We’re happy to send you a summary of the differing conditions and prices we may have for the same title. DESCRIPTION: Softcover. Publisher: Ballantine Books(1978) Pages: 128. CONDITION: NEW. New very large(10x8 inches) softcover. Ballantine Books(1978) 128 pages. New oversized softcover. Inside the book is pristine. Pages are clean, crisp, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound, unambiguously unread. Outside book is uUnblemished except for VERY slight(almost imperceptible) edge and corner shelf wear, as well as mild rubbing to the covers(the covers are high gloss black and so show slight rub/scuff marks even merely from being shelved between other books- it's really not very noticeable unless you hold the book up to the light and then catch the light"just so" Condition is entirely consistent with new(albeit 35 year old) stock from a bookstore environment wherein new books might show minor signs of shelfwear, consequence of simply being shelved and re-shelved. Satisfaction unconditionally guaranteed. In stock, ready to ship. No disappointments, no excuses. PROMPT SHIPPING! HEAVILY PADDED, DAMAGE-FREE PACKAGING! 5956.1b. PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTIONS AND IMAGES BELOW FOR DETAILED REVIEWS AND FOR PAGES OF PICTURES FROM INSIDE OF BOOK. PLEASE SEE PUBLISHER. PROFESSIONAL, AND READER REVIEWS BELOW. PUBLISHER REVIEWS: REVIEW: Only a small amount of Egyptian jewelry has survived the ravages of time and the grave robbers. But the remnant is staggering
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States (REVIEW : This book provides a very general overview of civilizations which existed in the ancient near East prior to the beginning of the Hellenic Age. ... moreContents/Chapter Headings include: 1) Pushing Back the Frontiers.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States But the Atlantis in our dreams and our myths was almost certainly the lost civilization of Minoan Crete. In the center of the island there stood a volcanic ... morepeak. But not forever. Nothing lasts forever.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States Several civilizations flourished in the fertile area created as the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow south out of Turkey. The area is commonly referred ... moreto as "the fertile crescent" by historians and archaeologists.
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$9.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States It begins with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history. It contains magical birds and superhuman heroes and centuries-long ... morebattles. REVIEW : A little over a thousand years ago the Persian poet Ferdowsi of Tous collected and put into heroic verse the millennium-old mythological and epic traditions of Iran.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Educated at Eton College and Sandhurst, Major William Joseph Myers (1858-99) started collecting in Egypt in the 1880s. "Sacred and Profane" celebrates ... morethis extraordinary bequest discussing statuettes of mortals and gods, mummy masks, jewelry, pottery and papyri in a thematic way alongside Roman and Byzantine coins from the rich Barber Institute of Fine Arts collections.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States CHAPTER TWO: Man’s First Cities. Field Patterns in Nippur. Several civilizations flourished in the fertile area created as the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ... moreflow south out of Turkey. The area is commonly referred to as "the fertile crescent" by historians and archaeologists.
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$11.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Reprinted in 1978, it remains the single most authoritative source for the translation of the hieroglyphic language(s) used by the ancient Egyptians from ... more3000 BC through 600 AD. There is both a hieroglyphic to English, as well as an English to hieroglyphic dictionary.
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$11.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States [Book News]. The Nile valley empire was as large as it had been since the New Kingdom. His successor, Tanutamun, also made a failed attempt to regain ... moreEgypt for Nubia. He successfully defeated Necho, the native Egyptian puppet ruler installed by Ashurbanipal, taking Thebes in the process.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States It consists of an estimated 17,500 silver Roman coins dating from between 32 B.C. and 274 A.D. In total, 17,577 coins were recovered! The hoard has been ... morethrough the Treasure Act process and all of the coins have been conserved to an identification standard – that is the legend and significant features are readable – at the British Museum.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States There is also a section on synthetic gemstones and how they have been created over the centuries, and how the color of stones can be changed by irradiation, ... moreheating and staining the stones. With authoritative text, clear photography, and a systematic approach, this concise guide to identification enables you to recognize each gemstone instantly.
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$6.99 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Lummi Island, United States A short history of the collection is also included. The wall painting, statues, mosaics, and household objects that are contained in this collection provide ... morea fascinating insight into the life of the average Pompeian, his religion, and his basic philosophy.
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$17.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States The tone is set by the very first item in the catalog: a contemporary bust in the round of Queen Elizabeth as Hercules. Much jewelry depended for its ... moresplendor of effect chiefly upon its inlay of brilliantly colored stones, jaspers, agates, lapis lazuli.
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$10.99 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Antique 19th Century Handcrafted ... moreNatural Twenty Eight and Three-Quarter Carat Amethyst from Scotland(Handcrafted in Russia) ORIGIN: Coastal Devonian Lava Beds. Angus, Scotland. 19th Century. SIZE: Length: 25 1/2mm. Width: 20 3/4mm. Depth: 10mm. All measurements approximate. WEIGHT: 28.71 carats. NOTES: Upon request we can set your gemstones as a ring. Pendant, or as earrings(click for more information) DETAIL: Throughout ancient and medieval history. The color purple was traditionally the color of royalty, and was also associated with the planet and the Roman God Jupiter the“Lord of Gods” of the Roman pantheon, also known as Zeus to the ancient Greeks) Consequentially Amethyst has been used since the dawn of recorded history to adorn the wealthy, as well as royalty. Ancient civilizations prized the stone more than many other gems which today enjoy more recognition and value, including sapphire, ruby, diamonds and emerald. For some time in the ancient world, amethyst was valued equally with the diamond, and only royal families were lawfully entitled to own and wear the stone. Amethyst was used extensively in the ancient Mediterranean world for carving intaglio gemstones and seals, particularly by the ancient Greeks and Romans. And in both ancient Greece and Rome rings of amethyst set in bronze were worn as charms against evil. The first century historian and naturalist Pliny wrote that if amethyst were worn round the neck on a cord made from dog's hair, it would afford the wearer protection against snakebite. Celebrating our historical legacy here's a very large. Very clean, 19th century faceted amethyst pear from the Devonian lava beds found along the coast of Angus Country, Scotland. Exported to Russia, the gemstone was hand crafted and faceted by a 19th century Russian artisan, part of an heritage renown for the production of the elaborate gemstones and jewelry of the Czars of Medie
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