Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
$1,000.00
Cast. Two horn-shaped pins with disk-shaped terminations and pierced from the termination’s center to the side of the pin. Decorated in wider area with spirals with raised knobs in the centers, longitudinal row of raised knobs and row of serpentine. One of the pins is broken in the middle and mended. Length of curve 6.3″ (16 cm).
Christie’s, NY, Ancient Jewelry, 12/05/2001, lot 22.
For published archaeological analogies see:
– Catalog of an exhibition “Gold of Northern Caucasus”
– Arheologiya. Epoha bronzi Kavkaza i Sredney Asii. Rannyaya i srednyaya bronza Kavkaza, vol.2, Moscow, 1994, p. 280