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    Zierscheibe (German for "ornamental disk") in archaeology is the term for a kind of metal jewellery dating to the European Iron Age. They are found in...
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    The Braganza Brooch is a gold ornamental fibula that was made in the third century BC by a Greek craftsman for a Celtic Iberian client. Since its discovery...
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    Ornamental disc (fibula) made of gilded silver. Made in Thracia around 100 BC, it was found in Limburg in 1850....
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    grave goods. The disc, made from a thin gold plate, was the ornamental cover for a disc fibula with a bronze pin as the fastener. Other grave goods included...
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    A woman in eastern Nepal wearing Jhamke Bulaki (a septum ring with ornamental designs)...
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    generally was rectangular. Clothes were secured with ornamental clasps or pins (περόνη, perónē; cf. fibula), and a belt, sash, or girdle (zone) might secure...
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  • signs that may also be "rune-like", in imitation of writing, or purely ornamental. For example, a ring found in Bopfingen has been interpreted as being...
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    Serbian archaeologist Đorđe Janković considered that the Serbian Danube ornamental ceramic pots' with analogies northwest of the Carpathian Basin (in Moravia...
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    have characteristics of other animals. The animals become subsumed into ornamental patterns, typically interlace. Examples of Style II can be found on the...
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    Ukraine dating from the 12th century. They also appear as a repeating ornamental motif on a tomb in the Basilica of St. Ambrose in Milan. A ceiling painted...
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    a vigorous trunk of lion. Ornamental bronze bird from Chardakhly village should also be mentioned. Decorative and ornamental adornments of the bronze plates...
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    are often found on architectural elements such as temple pediments, and ornamental antefixes and acroteria, or decorating various round objects, such as...
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    into the four arches that rise behind the fleur-de-lis and the eight ornamental points between the fleur-de-lis. At the junction of these four arches...
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    characteristics of other types of animal. The animal becomes subsumed into ornamental patterns, typically using interlace. Thus two bears are facing each other...
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    generally was rectangular. Clothes were secured with ornamental clasps or pins (περόνη, perónē; cf. fibula), and a belt, sash, or girdle (zone) might secure...
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    De Mortillet is of opinion that such use of the sign was not merely ornamental, but rather a symbol of consecration, especially in the case of objects...
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    included ceramics, glass cups and dishes, jugs, jewelry (earrings, ornamental pearls, fibulas), cloths (belts, buckles) and coins. As the area is made of limestone...
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    individual European countries, Italy and the UK. Art jewelry Bronze and brass ornamental work Heirloom Gemology Jewellery cleaning Jewellery of the Berber cultures...
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    that Brachiosaurus and other sauropods with large noses could have had ornamental nasal crests. It has been proposed that sauropods, including Giraffatitan...
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    technique. In addition to ornamental bracelets, anklets, pendants, rings and chains for necklaces or headgear, characteristic fibula or penannular brooches...
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    sculptures belong to the geometric style, underscored by the engraved ornamental signs, and take direct inspiration from the Sardinian statuettes of the...
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    linen or wool fabric with minimal cutting or sewing, and secured with ornamental clasps or pins, and a belt, or girdle (ζώνη: zōnē).[page needed] Pieces...
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    of the Asclepius of Milos, Greece, (325–300 BC) Braganza Brooch, Ornamental gold fibula reflecting Celtic and Greek influences (3rd century BC) Hoard of...
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    698–715. Many of the similarities are to the carpet pages, highly detailed ornamental pages filled with decoration, which share with the brooch a certain horror...
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  • imaging software Geometric lathe — a 19th-century lathe used for making ornamental patterns on the plates used in printing banknotes and stamps Microprinting...
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    did not survive. No other Anglo-Saxon cuirass clasps are known. The ornamental purse-lid, covering a lost leather pouch, hung from the waist-belt. The...
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    as Gourville (Gothorum villa) and a handful of unique artifacts like ornamental fibulae. Clovis established a count in Angoulême, likely the first counts...
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    Etruria. On the other hand, the cinerary container is decorated with ornamental hatch patterns created with a spatula by "hot incising" the metal material...
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    that Brachiosaurus and other sauropods with large noses could have had ornamental nasal crests. It has been proposed that sauropods, including Brachiosaurus...
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    acroterion, antefixs and plaques with narrative scenes or with various ornamental motifs. The decoration of the main temples—smaller than the Greek ones...
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