Topic
Jewelry
Ornaments worn in life and placed in graves: beads, pendants, earrings, rings and diadems in picrolite, shell, faience, gold and silver.
6 entries in 4 sections
Statues
2 entriesSection overview
Cruciform FigurinesSmall stylised human figures with outstretched arms and bent legs, carved mostly in picrolite in Chalcolithic Cyprus and often worn as pendants.Chalcolithic
Neolithic and Picrolite FigurinesThe small, mostly stone and rarely sexed human figures of Neolithic Cyprus, and the early use of picrolite that precedes the Chalcolithic cruciforms.NeolithicChalcolithic
Jewelry
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Tools and Technologies
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Faience in Ancient CyprusA glazed quartz-paste material found on Cyprus as beads, vessels and amulets from the Chalcolithic onward, though no local workshop has been identified.ChalcolithicMiddle Bronze AgeLate Bronze AgeCypro-GeometricCypro-Archaic
Gold, Silver, Tin, Arsenic and Iron in Ancient CyprusThe metals other than copper used by Cypriot smiths from the Philia facies to the 12th century BCE, including arsenic, tin, gold, electrum, silver, lead and iron.Early Bronze AgeMiddle Bronze AgeLate Bronze Age
Daily Life
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