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Elaborate pendant

Χ-Α648
Metal (Gold), Rock crystal, Amber
Missing 4 of the 5 small inlays. The large semicircular crystal inlay is broken in two uneven pieces. Cracks in various parts of the gold sheets.
Width: 6.8 cm. Length of chain: 15.7 cm.
Knossos
Tekke
Early Archaic period:
early 7th c. BC:
Gallery:
XIX
Case:
187
Exhibition thematic unit:
Geometric - Archaic - Classical period (10th-4th c. BC). The Cemeteries
Jewellery
Description
Pendant with almost semicircular main body surrounded by a low band of twisted wire supporting a slightly curved rock-crystal inlay of the same shape. The body is suspended, via connecting discs with lentoid inlays of amber and small bands, from a hollow horizontal rod. This is suspended in turn from a thick chain terminating in snakes’ heads. From the main body hang, on pairs of fine chains, three crescent-shaped ornaments with attached hollow discs, originally inlaid, probably with amber, which has not survived. All the available free surfaces of the pendant are filled with fine granulated and filigree decoration.
Bibliography:
J. Boardman, "The Khaniale Tekke Tombs",The Annual of the British School at Athens 62 (1967), 57-75, esp. 68, no. 1, pls 7,1 and 10. J. Boardman, "The Knossos Tekke jewellery hoards", in R. Gigli (ed.), ΜΕΓΑΛΑΙ ΝΗΣΟΙ. Studi dedicati a G. Rizza per il suo ottantesimo compleanno, Catania 1998, vol. Ι, 163-166. A. Kotsonas, "Health and status in Iron age Knossos", Oxford Journal of Archaeology 25(2) 2006, 149-172.
Author:
K. S.


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