5th Part

ANCIENT JEWELLERY EXHIBITED IN ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS MUSEUM

Head Jewellery

Earrings

There is a moving pendulum in an equilateral quadruple shape made of granule particles at the end of the flat ring. A simple ring is closed with a hook.

The ends of a simple ring are closed with a loop and a hook. Its moving pendulums are different from each other. For this reason, the originality of the pair is doubted. The two ends of the first pendulum, which is cornered, multi - edged, long and in the form of a conic pipe, are surrounded with grooved filigreed. A flat golden wire passing through it expands in the upper part and forms a wide handle attached to the hook. A blue bead seen under the pendulum is attached to the wire and the end of the wire is twisted and closed. The other pendulum is cylindrical, partly crushed and its upper side is a granule. The same type of a bead is attached to the end of this pendulum. This pendulum may belong to another earring ring, since it is an opus that is purchased and the loop and hook connection's interlocking places have been opened and closed.

A simple ring is closed with a loop and a hook. The end of the hook is wound twice around a ring. A wide, round disk, whose mid part is opened, is attached to the ring with two wide handles. Three small spherical pendulums are attached to the disk, one being inside, on the upper part and the two being outside, on two sides. Only two of the three small spheres outside and the trace of the other sphere have been protected.

It is made of gold with low fineness. The frame in the form of a drop is surrounded with filigreed internally and externally. There are four round ornaments on it. Furthermore, five openwork spheres are soldered to the frame. The earring hook attached to the two spheres on the upper part are closed with hinge.

Two baskets are formed by folding two oval forms made by soldering six wire rings inserted into each other. After that, these two baskets are soldered on the two sides of the flat ring forming the handle. One end of the one - piece handle of the item 486 is sharp; there are granule ornaments on the front face of the earring between two thin, horizontal golden bands. On the front face of the item 487, there are granule particles between three thin horizontal golden bands. Half of the third band is missing and the hook of the earring is not one - piece and the part inserted in the ear is attached.

There are four baskets, two handles in each earring. The upper parts of the parts of the handles corresponding to the basket body are ornamented with thin, horizontal lines. Big granule particles are soldered over the two rows of small scales on the front sides of the earrings. Grooved bands are placed between them. The ends of the hooks are holed.