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Offline kanmani

Re: Gold Objects
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2012, 11:02:55 AM »

Golden laurel wreath, probably from Cyprus, 4th/3rd century BC; Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany

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Re: Gold Objects
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2012, 11:04:36 AM »

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Re: Gold Objects
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2012, 11:05:47 AM »

   Various gold artefacts. Photo taken at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

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Re: Gold Objects
« Reply #18 on: June 20, 2012, 11:06:50 AM »

A unique gold vessel shaped in the form of a fish. It may have been used to contain expensive oils.

Offline kanmani

Re: Gold Objects
« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2012, 11:07:43 AM »

   Various gold artefacts. Photo taken at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Offline kanmani

Re: Gold Objects
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2012, 11:09:43 AM »

Fragment of an Ancient Greek gold laurel wreath in the Metropolitan Museum.

Offline kanmani

Re: Gold Objects
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2012, 11:11:29 AM »

An 18th Century Persian astrolabe – maker unknown. The points of the curved spikes on the front rete plate, mark the positions of the brightest stars. The name of each star being labeled at the base of each spike. The back plate, or mater is engraved with projected coordinate lines. From the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge.

Offline kanmani

Re: Gold Objects
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2012, 11:12:36 AM »

   
Gold reliquary chest with Madonna enthroned and figures of twenty martyred Dutch Catholic priests late Medieval, removed from Netherlands to Belgium.
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Re: Gold Objects
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Re: Gold Objects
« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2012, 11:29:43 AM »