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Cosmetic Box With Lid and Scoop

Silver

Height of box 2.6 cm.
width of lid 8.8 cm.
Length of lid 9.2 cm.
Total weight of box and lid 349.05 gr.
Length of scoop 7,3 cm.
Width 2 cm.; weight 9.95 gr.

Usak Museum

The almost square box is internally into five sections, divided four outer square with the inner corners to the curve of the cylindrical central compartment. The upper edge . . . → Read More: Cosmetic Box With Lid and Scoop

Pair Of Bracelets

Gold

Preserved length 4.3 and 3.6 cm.
thickness of hoop 0.8 cm.
total weight 27.15 gr.

Usak Museum

The open Hoop of the bracelet has a round cross section and is made of gold sheet with a filling made of glass or glass-paste. The Tyre originally consisted of four sections (missing one of the central sections) and the joints were covered with . . . → Read More: Pair Of Bracelets

Signet Ring

Gold

Width of hoop 2.3 cm.
Height 2.1 cm.
Weight 7.33 gr

Usak Museum

Across the Hoop is an oval bezel, bounded by flattened grains. The terminals of the Hoop in the form of lion heads, each grasping an end of the bezel in its jaws. Around each neck is a granular Collan the ears and collar around his neck on the sides . . . → Read More: Signet Ring

Ring

Gold and Jasper

Width of hoop 2.8 cm.
width of bezel 1,7 cm.
Weight 17.06

Usak Museum

The gold ring has a gemstone jasper mounted on a swivel chair. The cast consists of a horseshoe-shaped hoop, fastened with cup-shaped terminals at each end of a golden rod that passes through a perforation in the stone. Both top and bottom of the stone are . . . → Read More: Ring

Seal Ring

Gold and Agate

Width of hoop 2.5 cm.
width of bezel 1,3 cm.
Weight 15.37

Usak Museum

The gold ring has an engraved agate scarab mounted on a swivel arm. The voices Hoop is a horseshoe, attached with clips at each end of a cup-shaped rod, which passes through a perforation in the stone. The mount is a golden band, decorated with granulation . . . → Read More: Seal Ring

Pyramidal Stamp Seal Pendant

Height including suspension loop 2.6 cm.
Width at base 1.6 cm.
weight 7.73 gr.

Usak Museum

The device on the underside of the stone shows a single pair of horned Achaemenian grasping, sitting, winged and confronted with the front feet, lifted one, touching. The stone is drilled horizontally at the top, suspended on thick gold wire, that he was in the . . . → Read More: Pyramidal Stamp Seal Pendant

Agate Pendant

Height including suspension loop 1.9 cm.
height of stone 0.9 cm.
length 2.5 cm.
weight 7.19 gr.

Usak Museum

The agate, with pink, red and white tape is basically done in a barrel-pearl, the apartment is at the bottom. It is perforated lengthwise and suspended on gold wire, in a similar way as the treatment of nos. 92, 94 and 95 The thicker central . . . → Read More: Agate Pendant

Pyxis With Lid

Sepolite and Dolamite

Diameter of box 8.9 cm.
Width of box 11.4 cm
diameter of lid 8.9 cm.
width of lid 11 cm.

Anatolian Civilizations Museum, Ankara

The box is a flat hemisphere into four compartments divided by septa. At each of the two sides is a square projection. One of them is by two holes, one drilled at the intersection of the projection . . . → Read More: Pyxis With Lid

Mirror Disk

Silver

Diameter 17.1 cm.
weight 409.55 gr.

Usak Museum

The highly polished circular disc has a slightly convex surface with a centering mark, and an inverted rim. arranged from one side of a square projects Tang) with three rivet holes in a triangle, for securing a handle (missing pierced), which was probably made of wood or ivorv. The edge of the disc . . . → Read More: Mirror Disk

Alabastron

Silver

Height 10.3 cm.
diameter at neck 1.7 cm.
diameter of body 3.6 cm.
weight 114.81 gr

Usak Museum

The body of the Alabastron bv five narrow stripes in four zones, each of which contains figural decoration, and has shared the bottom of the vessel an elaborate floral design. lmmediat y & down a ring of short tongues alternately hatched and the level . . . → Read More: Alabastron