ANCIENT JEWELLERY.
GOLD MANICURE SET. Some beautiful jewellery been discovered in the 400 I at Ur of the Chaldees, the 1 *|*'§! of Abraham, in Mesopotamia* 8 excavation work is being earn a joint expedition of - ?T ; ; Museum and of the bni j|; Pennsylvania. . t i* 3* 5 H The latest of the gra v ®*i «£ >: '& cemetery date before 3* lowest and the earliest per* years older, and go back . rfS of whose history the anc have preserved nothing but c& mythical kings, who brwt*~ fljj between the known world an The degree of wealth an l <p indicated by the graves ** - ing. For ornamental P UI "P \>\e \ and gold are very of is sometimes used in the leaf laid over copper, hot solid and heavy. A ‘* nia r. , » gr C ld tweezers and pick in s 0l J SO b* vf . curiously modern look, an heavy gold chains f ouD graves. kane s a** : Gold beads of various sna P ucb numerous, and there are vuee ments of jewellery as a n I . rows of lapis lazuli be* » cr v#ls flower-rosettes set at fTolrt ncnda
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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186ANCIENT JEWELLERY. Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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