Ancient Jewels and Jewelry

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.

Roman Egyptian gold serpent ring with garnets, c. 30 BCE to 323 CE. From Timeline Auctions

Pair of Roman gold, garnet, and glass earrings, c. 2nd-3rd centuries CE. From Christie’s auctions.

Pair of gold and garnet Roman earrings, c. 2nd century CE. From Christie’s auctions.

Gold and garnet Roman pendant, c. 1st century CE. From Christie’s auctions.

Gold and carnelian Hellenistic Greek ring depicting Herakles, c. 330-300 BCE. From Christie’s auctions

Gold, amethyst, and emerald Roman ring, c. 3rd-4th centuries CE. From Christie’s auctions.

Gold and garnet Roman ring, c. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. From Christie’s Auctions.

Roman gold and garnet openwork pendant, c. 1st century BCE - 1st century CE. From Christie’s Auctions.

Urartian gold and carnelian bead, c. 8th-7th centuries BCE. From Bonhams auction house.

Pair of gold and garnet Roman earrings. Interesting starburst shape setting around the irregularly shaped garnets. Circa 3rd century CE.

Gold and garnet Hellenistic earrings in the form of amphorae, c. 2nd-1st century BCE. From Bonhams auction house.

Pair of Parthian gold and garnet earrings c. 2nd-1st centuries BCE. From Bonhams auction house.

Pair of Roman earrings made of gold, amethyst, and pearls c. 3rd century CE. Pearls probably not original. From Bonhams auction house.

Emerald and gold Roman necklace, c. 2nd-3rd centuries CE. From Bonhams auction house.

Pair of gold and amethyst earrings belonging to a woman named Han Farong, discovered in a tomb in Datong City, China, c. 500 CE. 

Roman amethyst and openwork gold necklace, c. 1st-2nd centuries CE. From Bonhams auction house.