1st Part

ANCIENT JEWELLERY EXHIBITED IN ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS MUSEUM

Head Jewellery

Earrings

IIt is cut from a thin, golden sheet, turned with its internal side being empty and given the form of a circle. Unlike the others, it is not flat and the flat ends are corresponding and open.

Three pairs are found in the Eskiyapar excavation. It is in the type of Moon - oyster in which the earring ring ornament is formed by four in one of them and six in the other, parallel, round, solid, round profiled wires side by side. The form of the wires remind the moon and the grooves they form by coming beside each other reminds the oyster shell, therefore it is called in this way.

It is one of the early samples of a boat - shaped earrings. There are filigreed and very small granule - like ornaments in its deep body in "U" shape and on the projections on the edges. The place where they combine with each other like two bumped covers with empty internal sides is closed with a thin band. A hook is broken. The places where the two ends of the hook go into the body are granule ornamented in rosette shape.

A flat golden plate is cut in two parts, bumped and formed as a boat. It is hollow inside. It is attached to the ends of the ring that inserts in the ear. There are big and small granule ornaments on the body and on the lower part.

A flat golden plate is cut in two parts, bumped and formed as a boat. It is hollow inside. It is attached to the ends of the ring that inserts in the ear. There are big and small granule ornaments on the body and on the lower part.

Both are right side single earrings and are registered with the same inventory number. There are five small spheres around both of them and two spheres are missing in one of them. A stylized peacock figures stand opposite each other on both sides of the earring with a plant motif in between them.