Necklace

Object ID
F2015.56.B
Object Name
Necklace
Material
Metal
Object Description
Silver chest piece. It has three strands of chains attached to a clip at the end. The clip at the end has a hook to loop onto fabric. It is a brassy color that has two birds set back to back with one wing spread outward. In the center of the bird there is an oval, flat but defined as a not a part of either bird. There is something above the head, but the image itself is very worn. There are three seperate small holes at the bottom of the clip where the cains are connected.
The chains are a clean and bright silver anf on each strand are numerous coins, all of which have the same imprint on them: there are two sections of design, the first is floral, three differect strands of plants and in between each three is an oval with some type of writting in the center. In the middle section of the coin, it looks like there is an "S" with three parallel lines intersecting at the bottom of it. There are just a few exceptions where in the center of the coin, instead of the "S" there is what looks like a butterfly.
The coins on the bottom strand are larger than the middle strand and the middle strand coins are larger than the top.
Is the smaller of the pair and would have been worn above F2015.56.A
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Citation
Necklace, National Hellenic Museum, https://collections.nationalhellenicmuseum.org/Detail/objects/10770. Accessed 03/28/24.