1st Part
ANCIENT JEWELLERY EXHIBITED IN ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS MUSEUM
Neck Jewellery
Necklaces
 | Name: | Bead series |
| Type: | Stone and deer tooth |
| Location where it came from: | Çatalhöyük |
| Way of Coming: | Exc. find |
It consists of four deer teeth and greenish grey and beige coloured stones and beads made in a rectangular shape.
 | Name: | Necklace elements |
| Type: | Gold |
| Location where it came from: | Alacahöyük |
| Way of Coming: | Exc. find |
| Dimensions:: | L:1.3cm
W:1.5cm |
| Weight: | 2.5 gr. |
| Period: | The Ancient Bronze Age |
It consists of elements made of a single part by twisting first a mid and then the other four projections of a sheet cut in a form of capital H letter with a thick mid part, in a way to form a spiral.
 | Name: | Necklace pieces (14pcs) |
| Type: | Altın |
| Location where it came from: | Alacahöyük |
| Way of Coming: | Exc. find |
| Dimensions:: | L: 34.5cm |
| Weight: | 50.46 gr. |
| Period: | The Ancient Bronze Age |
It is in a form of a disk, there is a string passage hole on its thin handle. There is a hole in the middle of the disk. There are four relief points forming the corners of a square around the hole. Cutting, repousse and hammering techniques are used. It is made of massive, lentil sized beads having three surfaces, a string passage hole in the middle. They are big and small ornamental elements in a pipe form cut and rolled from a golden sheet. Their upper parts have nodes and are sloped. There are four point shaped projections on four faces of the holed, massive beads. They are big and small solid, flat, round beads having a string passage hole in the middle. They are spatula shaped wide beads having string passage holes, whose upper parts are grooved.
 | Name: | Necklace |
| Type: | Gold |
| Location where it came from: | Eskiyapar |
| Way of Coming: | Exc. find |
| Dimensions:: | H:31 cm W:1.4 cm |
| Weight: | 112.96 gr. |
| Period: | The Ancient Bronze Age |
The elements forming the necklace are: an end of a thin, grooved handle having a string passage hole. It is disk shaped and the middle of the disk is bumped. The edge of the disk that is in the form of a small ladle is repousse groove ornamented. The elements in the form of a date seed are square profiled, their long edges are blister grooved, and both ends are flat cut.
 | Name: | Necklace elements |
| Type: | Gold and bead |
| Location where it came from: | Yapraklı |
| Way of Coming: | Purchase |
| Dimensions:: | L: 35.5 cm |
| Weight: | 11.57 gr |
| Period: | The 8-7th century BC |
Blue coloured, round, prismatic and cylindrical glass beads are placed between the golden necklace pieces in various forms. The bud shaped golden necklace particles are empty. The triangular and round ones are made by sealing and all are cut from thin golden sheets.
 | Name: | Necklace elements |
| Type: | Gold |
| Location where it came from: | Yapraklı |
| Way of Coming: | Purchase |
| Dimensions:: | piece 1x1 cm |
| Weight: | 6.5 gr. |
| Period: | The 8th-7th century BC |
Groups of three elements are formed by putting together three of the olive seed shaped grooved particles longitudinally. In accordance with this arrangement, we have to assume that they were stringed on three rows of strings. The particles are cut from a golden sheet, the seed shape is given by turning on mould and golden filigreed rings are placed at their ends.