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$9.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States Together they illustrate the long history of the practice from about 3000 BC to the 19th century AD. She includes black-and-white photographs of all of ... morethem and color photographs of 20 [Book News]. A few famous examples of ancient Greek jewelry, such as an earring in the form of a siren, is a charming example of Greek jeweler's modeling.
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$7.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States More comprehensive than before, this reference remains the finest and most beautifully illustrated history of jewelry ever published. The pectoral is ... moregold inlaid with lapis lazuli, car-nelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which were presented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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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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$8.99 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Ferndale, United States The Hittites were thus left to compete unsuccessfully with the powerful Assyrians and the newly arrived Phrygians. He was devoted to his new religion ... moreand artistic style. This style, known as Amarna art, was quickly and thoroughly erased after Akhenaten's death and replaced by the traditional forms.
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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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$7.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States More comprehensive than before, this reference remains the finest and most beautifully illustrated history of jewelry ever published. The pectoral is ... moregold inlaid with lapis lazuli, car-nelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which were presented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$4.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States As with many societies, ancient Roman accessorizing varied along boundaries of gender and age, in addition to social standing. One choker-style necklace, ... moretwo bracelets, and multiple rings would be worn at once.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Greek and Roman Jewellery(68 ... morePlates in Full Colour) by Filippo Coarelli. DESCRIPTION: Hardcover w/dustjacket(157 pages- 68 full color plates) Hamlyn/Cameo(1970) The history and jewelry wearing customs of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Sixty-Eight incredible color plates of ancient Greek and Roman Jewelry. Coffee Table Quality Reference(albeit small 8½*5½ inches) A fabulous reference! You’ll be thankful 100 times to have this book at your fingertips. The history and customs described are fascinating. The color pictures stunning. CONDITION: Hardcover w/dustjacket. Lightly browsed hardcover w/dustjacket. Pages are pristine; unblemished. Clean, crisp, unmutilated, bound very tightly, and unmarked. The book appears to have only been flipped through once or twice, and is"like new" except the top surface of closed page edges is slightly tanned and freckled(dust dinge/age spotting) however this is not only very faint, but also visible only when the pages are closed, not to individual pages, only to the mass of closed page edges) Otherwise exceptionally clean and exceptionally good condition. PLEASE SEE IMAGES BELOW FOR SAMPLE PAGES FROM INSIDE OF BOOK. This is a wonderful. High quality book originally produced in the U.K. and Italy in English for distribution world wide. The full color plates are simply magnificent, and the images are of the most fabulous gold jewelry ever produced and uncovered from ancient Greece and Rome. It is a wonderful reference for those interested in the history of jewelry, and wonderful pictures for whose who just want to admire the incredible gold jewelry of these grand empires. There are pictures of many pieces which I have never seen before, except in pricey museum catalogs. Still a wonderful reference despite being originally produced in 1966, it is divided into five sections: The Geometric and Orientalising Periods; Archaic Greece and Etruria; The Cla
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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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$7.99 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Ferndale, United States Publisher: Ashmolean Museum (1978). Pages: 100. The Ashmolean Museum is the oldest museum in Britain, housing Oxford University's unrivaled collection ... moreof antiquities. The Ashmolean Museum is the oldest museum in Britain, housing Oxford University's unrivalled collection of antiquities.
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$4.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States The pectoral is gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, car-nelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which ... morewere presented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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Free Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States The more spectacular objects of ancient art are usually for the well-to-do connoisseur and active museums, and are not the focus of this book. Instead ... morethe pages depict ancient artifacts which can be held and collected by everyone.
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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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$8.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States CHAPTER TWO: MINOANS AND MYCENAEANS. Introduction; Early Greece; Pre-Palatial Greece; Crete: the Early Palaces; Crete: the Late Palaces; Mycenaean Knossos; ... moreMycenaean Greece; the End of the Bronze Age; Seal Use and Production; Aegean Seals and the Outside World.
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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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Free Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Antique 18th Century Genuine ... moreNatural Two and One-Quarter Carat Hand Crafted/Polished Siberian Agate Semi-Precious Gemstone Oval. CLASSIFICATION: Polished Siberian Onyx Polished Cabochon. ORIGIN: 18th century Russia. SIZE: Length: 10mm. Width: 8mm. Depth(Thickness) 3mm. Measurements approximate. WEIGHT: 2.21 carats. NOTES: Upon request we can set your gemstones as a ring. Pendant, or as earrings(click for more information) DETAIL: In the ancient world. Onyx was oftentimes more costly than either gold or silver, and one ancient reference recorded it as more valuable than sapphire. Onyx was used in ancient Egypt as early as the Second Dynasty(about 2800 B.C. to make bowls and other items. Onyx also was amongst the artifacts recovered of Minoan Crete(about 1800 B.C. notably from the archaeological discoveries at Knossos. Onyx became particularly famous in the hands of both the Greeks and Romans, who as described by the first century Roman historian and naturalist“Pliny the Elder” crafted beautiful intaglio seals out of onyx. In Greco-Roman Mythology, onyx was believed to originated from the fingernails of Venus, the Goddess of Beauty. Celebrating our cultural inheritance here's an antique handcrafted Siberian black onyx cabochon cut gemstone. In the ancient world Persian magicians were believed to possess the power to divert storms through the use of agate talismans of various species(including onyx) Many forms of agate. Including onyx, have been popularly used through recorded history for the production of jewelry, beads, and amulets due to the vibrant rainbow of colors agate naturally occurs in. Agate amulets produced by Stone Age man in France has been discovered, dating the known use of agate back to approximately 20,000 B.C. Agate was widely used and admired by the ancient Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians, Persians, Egyptians, etc. Hand crafted by an 18th century Russian artisan. P
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States This spectacular assemblage may have belonged to an important and wealthy woman in Ptolemaic Egypt. The author demonstrates how the symbolism of dynastic ... morepower plays a central role in the interpretation of each object and in understanding the assemblage as a whole.
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$11.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Pages: 384. The book features jewelry ranging from the splendid crowns of ancient Greece, gold earrings from Babylon, and jeweled collars worn by 13th-century ... moreIslamic royalty to more modern pieces such as those contained in the imperial collection of Queen Louise of Prussia, Art Nouveau jewelry designed by René Lalique, and work by contemporary designers.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The most comprehensive and beautiful book ever published on the opulent treasures of Egypt! The greatest glories of Egypt! Nubian gold, vivid lapis lazuli, ... morebright-colored faience, and blood-red carnelian.
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$7.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States This book covers everything from jeweler's tools to funerary baubles. [Elle Magazine]. Copious full color photographs illustrate the many types of jewelry ... moreworn by the Ancient Egyptians, both in life and as funerary pieces.
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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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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Tin and charcoal were imported into Cyprus, where locally mined copper was mined and alloyed with the tin from Britain. Britain’s Bronze Age cultures ... moreincluded the Beaker, Wessex, Deverl, and Rimbury.
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$10.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Recent digs in Belsk, Ukraine uncovered a vast city believed to be the Scythian capital Gelonus described by Herodotus. A kurgan or burial mound near ... morethe 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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$16.49 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : Finger rings call upon the arts of the goldsmith. Engraver, and jeweler. Etruscan Scarabs and Rings. So does the gem refer to the Roman armies ... moreavenging a past defeat?. The burial chamber of an Etruscan lady, near Vulci, opened over a century ago, yielded a rich parure.
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$13.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Avar Goldsmiths' Work from the Perspective of Cultural History (Csanad Balint). The conference, organized under the auspices of the British Museum Byzantine ... moreSeminar, was the fifth in an annual series going back to 2003.
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$10.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Minoan and Mycenaean Gems. Graeco-Phoenician Scarabs. Etruscan Scarabs. Near Eastern and Phoenician Seals. But little is known about the earlier period ... morearound 1500 B.C., when Mycenaean society was taking shape.
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$7.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : This book chronicles the beautiful exhibit of Scythian and Sarmatian treasures that traveled to New York and to L.A. in 1975. REVIEW : This beautiful ... morefull-color museum catalogue chronicles the beautiful exhibit of Scythian and Sarmatian treasures that traveled to New York and to L.A. in 1975.
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$13.99 Shipping Condition: New Location: Lummi Island, United States Avar Goldsmiths' Work from the Perspective of Cultural History (Csanad Balint). The conference, organized under the auspices of the British Museum Byzantine ... moreSeminar, was the fifth in an annual series going back to 2003.
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$10.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States This concept is defined as "the study of an imaginary Egypt viewed as the profound source of all esoteric lore. [Terence DuQuesne, Discussions in Egyptology]. ... moreHornung sees the literary traditions of the Rosicrucians as borrowing heavily from the general popularity of esoteric Egyptian motifs then in circulation.
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$9.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States In 429 B.C. Athens sent an expedition against Lycia to try to force it to rejoin the league. Persia held Lycia until it was conquered by Alexander III ... more(the Great) of Macedon during 334–333 B.C. The area was known prior to Greek/Hellenic colonization as the Kingdom of Lycia.
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$6.99 Shipping 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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$6.99 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Lummi Island, United States The pectoral is gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, car-nelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which ... morewere presented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$11.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States “The Golden Deer Of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures From The Russian Steppes” by Joan Aruz, Ann Farkas, Andrei Alekseev, and Elena Korolkova. ... moreThe discoveries at Filippovka open a new chapter in the history of the material culture of the nomads who in the first millennium B.C. traversed the steppe corridor extending from the Black Sea region to China.
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$39.89 Shipping Location: Miami, United States The carved agate has been re-mounted in a contemporary necklace of tiger eyes beads, with a customized toggle lock system. The ancient piece can be easily ... moreremoved without affecting the integrity. Great look and nice eye appeal.
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$8.99 Shipping Condition: Unspecified Location: Lummi Island, United States CHAPTER TWO: MINOANS AND MYCENAEANS. Introduction; Early Greece; Pre-Palatial Greece; Crete: the Early Palaces; Crete: the Late Palaces; Mycenaean Knossos; ... moreMycenaean Greece; the End of the Bronze Age; Seal Use and Production; Aegean Seals and the Outside World.
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Free Shipping Location: Thailand Provenance : Treasury found beneath the Afghan land. Material: Genuine Solid Bronze. SIZE : 7.5 us. VERY GOOD PRICE. After this period, no claims of any ... morekind will be accepted. Period : Pre 1800, Ancient, Roman.
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$11.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States These outstanding works not only place the Filippovka discoveries in their proper historical and cultural context but are themselves fascinating and enigmatic. ... more“The Golden Deer Of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures From The Russian Steppes” by Joan Aruz, Ann Farkas, Andrei Alekseev, and Elena Korolkova.
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$6.49 Shipping Condition: New 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 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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$6.49 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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$10.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States “The Golden Deer Of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures From The Russian Steppes” by Joan Aruz, Ann Farkas, Andrei Alekseev, and Elena Korolkova. ... moreThese outstanding works not only place the Filippovka discoveries in their proper historical and cultural context but are themselves fascinating and enigmatic.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: New Location: Lummi Island, United States Tin and charcoal were imported into Cyprus, where locally mined copper was mined and alloyed with the tin from Britain. Britain’s Bronze Age cultures ... moreincluded the Beaker, Wessex, Deverl, and Rimbury.
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Condition: Used Location: Denver, United States Early 19th century. Circa 1830.
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$10.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New 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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$7.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The Thracian works of art are mute but eloquent witnesses to man's endless quest for beauty and harmony. The Thracian works of art are mute but eloquent ... morewitnesses to man’s endless quest for beauty and harmony.
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$7.99 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Lummi Island, United States Probably designed for ceremonial occasions are four magnificent silver-gilt rhyta or drinking vessels, including two from the collection of The Cleveland ... moreMuseum of Art. One is in the shape of a horse, another combining a female head with that of an Indian buffalo.
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$8.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States After their retreat, the native Theban kings found themselves trapped between the Canaanite Hyksos ruling the north and the Hyksos' Nubian allies, the ... moreKushites, to the south of Egypt. After years of vassalage, Thebes gathered enough strength to challenge the Hyksos in a conflict that lasted more than 30 years, until 1555 B.C.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Genetic evidence for ranging clear across the plains (steppes) from Black Sea to Lake Baikal. Scythia was a loose state that originated as early as 8th ... morecentury B.C. Little is known of them and their rulers.
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$11.99 Shipping Condition: New Location: Lummi Island, United States The Nile valley empire was as large as it had been since the New Kingdom. The pectoral is gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, car-nelian, and turquoise, and ... morethe eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which were presented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$6.49 Shipping Condition: Used 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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$7.49 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Ferndale, United States After their retreat, the native Theban kings found themselves trapped between the Canaanite Hyksos ruling the north and the Hyksos' Nubian allies, the ... moreKushites, to the south of Egypt. After years of vassalage, Thebes gathered enough strength to challenge the Hyksos in a conflict that lasted more than 30 years, until 1555 B.C.
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