Benaki Museum

Benaki Museum, ΓΕ 2108

Mycenaean gold kylix with a repousse representation of running hunting dogs. From Dendra in the Argolis, Late Helladic IIB-IIIA period (15th c. BC). H. 0.10 m. (ΓΕ 2108)

Benaki Museum, ΓΕ 2052

Gold hair ring. This type of jewellery was used to adorn ringlets of hair. Amorgos, Cyclades, 9th c. BC. H. 0,016 m. (ΓΕ 2052)

Benaki Museum, ΓΕ 1521

Gold biconical bead intricately decorated with granulation and filigree. Macedonia, 6th c. BC. L. 0,02 m. (ΓΕ 1521)

Benaki Museum, ΓΕ 2087

Gold vase-shaped pendant. Second half of 4th c. BC. (ΓΕ 2087)

Benaki Museum, ΓΕ 2099

Gold necklace consisting of a fine band with rosettes and a row of lanceolate leaf pendants. Late 4th c. BC. L. 0,302 m. (ΓΕ 2099)

Benaki Museum, ΓΕ 30005

Gold bow fibula, the finials ornamented with a Pegasos and a Gorgon's head. Probably from northern Greece, 4th c. BC. L. 0.04 m. Gift of Georgios and Athanasia Pappas. (ΓΕ 30005)

Benaki Museum, ΓΕ 2086

Gold amulet in the form of a bull’s head, with granulation used for the decorative details and additional enamelled coating in places. The suspension holes in the top part of the head suggest it was threaded on a narrow ribbon and hung, by itself, around the neck. The generative vigour of the animal accounts for the survival of its symbolic meaning from the time of the Minoan civilisation, and the preservation of its talismanic significance throughout both the Geometric and the Archaic period. Probably from Thessaly, 6th-early 5th c. BC. H. 0.04 m. (ΓΕ 2086)

Benaki Museum, ΓΕ 1549

Precious gold diadem and diadem centrepiece with a ‘Herakles Knot’ and garnet, agate, enamel and glass paste ornaments. Diadems of this type were worn on a high coiffure with the pendent elements falling on the forehead. The ‘Herakles Knot’, to which protective and therapeutic qualities were attributed, was widely used in Hellenistic and Roman jewellery. Early 2nd c. BC. L. 0.51 m. (ΓΕ 1549)

Benaki Museum, ΓΕ 1544

Gold band diadem with a repousse representation of the Mistress of Animals (Potnia Theron) flanked by pairs of lion-griffins. These subjects are of Oriental provenance and associated with funerary cults. Eretria, late 4th-3rd c. BC. L. 0,37 m. (ΓΕ 1544)