Greek Jewellery (3300-2000 BC)

  Gold pendant with a pair of wasps or bees. Superb specimen of Minoan goldsmithing with granulation and filigree technique. From Chrysolakkos, Malia, Crete. (Herakleion Museum). 1800-1600 BC.

Greek Jewellery

Jewellery in the Prehistoric Aegean

Early Bronze Age (3300-2000 BC)

Jewellery-making began in earnest in Greece around ...

the middle of the Early Bronze Age, with a variety of types, shapes and techniques. This art continued to flourish until the end of the Bronze Age. The jewellery known mainly comes from graves, for apart from bedecking the living it also accompanied the dead as funerary goods. It was widely distributed in both mainland and island Greece. Many types of jewellery, particularly of the Late Bronze Age, are also known from the iconography, such as the diverse ornaments worn by men and women illustrated in the wall-paintings of the period.
Jewellery was surely an indication of the wearers' wealth and superior social status, indeed analogous to the value of the materials from which it was made
by: add.gr