Gilt silver phylactery from the Marchtal Abbey in Obermarchtal, Germany, circa 1150-1300 AD

from The Louvre

Necklace worn by Executioner

Executioner's chain of office, 19th century, Africa

From the Science Museum of London / jstor

Gold wedding ring with an emerald and a garnet, Byzantine, 10th century

from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Botanical illustrations (after 1440) by an unknown artist taken from Munich Cim.

Wikimedia.

2 silver cups, part of the so-called Boscoreale treasure, buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

bavarian charivari

Anglo-Saxon Cremation Pots from Cleatham Cemetery, North Lincolnshire Museum, Scunthorpe

Pendants uncovered near Kent, Anglo-Saxon England, 7th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Etruscan duck-shaped askoi (sort of a flask), created in the period around 350-325 BC in Clusium (today's Chiusi).

Bronze griffin protome, Greece, 640-600 BC

from The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

Late Bronze-Age sacrificial well, c. 800-400 BC from "An Introduction to Celtic Mythology" by David Bellingham

By american silversmith & jeweller Holly Masterson

Medieval small badge of a knight.

England, c. 12th century

MARISOL ESCOBAR, PRINTER'S BOX, 1956

wood, bronze, painted terracotta

A Viking Age amulet fashioned out of fossilised sea urchin and bronze, Lindholm, Denmark