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This gold fastener has an engraved spiral design on its quatrefoil head. The shank is pierced. It was found with a spare headdress on a table beside Puabi's bier inside her grave. Puabi was a Semitic Akkadian woman from...

This gold bowl has double-roll handles on each side made of twisted wire. Early Dynastic Period, circa 2600 BCE. From the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Part of objects allotted...

Two gold solidus coins depicting Roman emperor Valens, r. 364-378 BCE. Provenance: north-west France. (Vannes Archaeological Museum, France)

A gold and carnelian ring incised with an elephant holding a goad in its trunk. From Tarentum (Taranto), southern Italy. 1st century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

A Mycenaean gold sword hilt with bronze blade. From a tomb in Skopelos, 15th century BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

Two small gold foil-covered lead bullae (amulet or pendant), found inside a ceramic vessel, from Annaghbeg or Monasterredan, Co. Sligo, Ireland, c. 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology...

Gold collection found near New Ross, Co. Waterford, Ireland, Late Bronze Age, c. 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

This group was found (together with the gold antelopes amulet) on Puabi's arm inside her grave. Puabi was a Semitic Akkadian woman from Ur, c. 2600 BCE, possibly a queen or priestess. Early Dynastic Period...

The lapis lazuli discs were carved and polished. They have two perforations through their diameter. They display a flat surface and a grooved circumflex. Each disc is surrounded by a single hammered gold ring...

Gold bowl depicting Dionysus, from Gandhara, c. 2nd century BCE. Islamabad Museum, Pakistan.