Ancient Jewels and Jewelry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Pair of gold filigree Greek earrings, c. 3rd-2nd centuries BCE. From Timeline Auctions