MAIASP.
2025. No. 19
Mikhail
Treister (Bonn,
Germany)
Imported
and locally manufactured jewellery in
the Cimmerian Bosporus in the late 6th
— 5th
Centuries BCE
This
article is devoted to the publication and analysis of gold,
electrum and silver jewellery dating from the late 6th
to the end of the 5th
centuries BCE, found in the territory of the Cimmerian Bosporus.
The main well-dated complexes with finds are considered. Jewellery
is discussed by categories: beads and necklaces, pendants and
amulets, earrings and temple pendants, torcs, bracelets, and
finger rings.
The
fact, that the jewellery items examined here are considered
primarily basing on publications of varying levels of description
and quality of illustrations and are unavailable to the author for
any technological research, significantly reduces the
possibilities of their attribution in terms of distinguishing
between imported and locally produced items. Nevertheless, having
been studied in the context of all known pieces of jewellery of
the late Archaic and early Classical periods from the Black Sea
region, Asia Minor, the Near East and Greece, they allow us to
express in a cautious form some considerations, basing primarily
on the peculiarities of the geographical distribution of forms and
decorative motifs.
Among
the supposedly imported ones, one can single out products of the
workshops located in Asia Minor, primarily Lydia, Cyprus and the
South-Eastern Black Sea region.
There
are also grounds
to suggest that already in the first half, possibly in the first
quarter, of the 5th
century BCE, local jewelry workshops working with precious metals
appeared in the Cimmerian Bosporus. Discussed are certain types of
boat earrings, spiral pendants, pendants of necklaces, torcs,
bracelets and finger rings which could have been manufactured in
the local workshops.
Key
words:
Cimmerian
Bosporus, jewelry, beads, necklaces, pendants, amulets, earrings
and temple pendants, torcs, bracelets, rings from the Late Archaic
and Early Classical periods, imported and locally produced.
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