an ordinary ethnography

• 2012-03-30 31 notes

  

  triglifos-y-metopas:

  Earing, gold with inlays of turquoise, carnelian and lapis lazuli.

  Iran

  525-533 B.C.

  [Museum of Fine Arts - Boston]

  (via chailatteplease)

  Source: triglifos-y-metopas

• 2012-02-26 114 notes

  

  historiated:

  Gold and niello inlay belt buckle from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo (in modern-day Suffolk, England), early 7th c. Image taken from ARTstor. Click through the photo for a larger image.

  (via rocks-n-bones-deactivated201203)

  Source: historiated