For #ReliefWednesday the mummy cartonnage of a child from #Egypt 1st century CE

The bust is gilded, eyes inlaid with glass. She wears a tunic with two black stripes, an elaborate coiffure, and a great deal of fine jewelry made in relief: 2 necklaces, one particularly striking, with three large oval settings inlaid with black & green faience, huge serpent bracelets, armlets with red & black stones.
In her right hand she holds a garland of flowers painted pink
#JewelryOnSculptures #AncientEgypt

The remains of a classical statue of Trajan, #Roman Emperor, found in Dion, west of Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece. He wears the laurel wreath with a little bust on the central #medallion

#Archaeology #JewelryOnSculptures #AncientGreece

📸 https://www.neweurope.eu/article/a-revived-role-for-the-us-in-northern-greece-requires-dynamic-action-and-focus/

Relief with Yakshi, fragment from a railing of a stupa from Northern #India. Dated to 120 BCE.
©MFA Boston
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/17659/yakshi-fragment-from-a-railing-of-a-stupa
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Polychrome head of a woman, once a part of a clay funerary statue. She wears gilded diadem with a tendril motif, and long earrings made of clay.

From Taranto, Magna Graecia, 4th century BCE.
Photo © NAM Umbria
#AncientColors #JewelryOnSculptures

The 24 bronze statues found during the excavations of San Casciano dei Bagni

#JewelryOnSculptures https://www.fanpage.it/cultura/ritrovate-24-statue-di-bronzo-a-san-casciano-dei-bagni-una-scoperta-che-riscrivera-la-storia/

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Gold earring "probably a Urartian work based on Assyrian models", h: 5.8 cm; diam. of arms 3.2 cm. On the ends of arms "there is a large cell rosette, which was originally probably filled with multicolored paste".

Relief is from Khorsabad #Assyria 710–705 BCE

The relief is in the British Museum https://britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1847-0702-9 Wery similar is in The Met https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322896

The earring photo by Artokoloro https://alamy.com/earrings-gold-forged-pressed-welded-granulated-electron-gold-silver-alloy-total-height-58-cm-diameter-32-cm-arms-weight-15-g-body-jewelry-antique-the-earring-consists-of-a-boat-shaped-body-with-radially-arranged-conical-arms-of-the-original-three-attachments-only-two-are-preserved-the-third-was-added-while-the-body-was-modelled-over-a-core-and-pressed-together-at-the-ends-the-arms-are-formed-by-rolled-up-sheet-metal-funnels-and-separately-produced-and-welded-on-end-shells-image392063269.html
The longer description >> https://imageselect.eu/en/image-details/Balb5143054.html