 Fashion was big three thousand five hundred years ago in bronze age Minoan Crete. The Minoans loved jewelry. Women depicted in frescoes, on wall-paintings and statuary are shown festooned with earrings, hair ornaments, necklaces and bracelets. The motifs used by the Minoan jewelers to decorate their necklaces, bracelets and earrings are drawn almost exclusively from living things stylized into shapes which please the eye as wearable forms.
 | Carnelian Minoan NecklaceCarnelian has always been valued for its color, luster and translucence. It was the Minoan?s stone of choice for sealstones. The richness of granulated gold and the red of carnelian creates an opulent piece of jewelry. It has a dolphin catch, and is 17" long (43cm). Price: $175.00
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