1st Part
ANCIENT JEWELLERY EXHIBITED IN ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS MUSEUM
Nobs and Needles
 | Name: | The Knobs |
| Type: | Gold |
| Location where it came from: | Alıntepe grave chamber |
| Way of Coming: | Exc. find |
| Dimensions: | piece H:0.5cm D:2cm |
| Weight: | piece 2.97-3.87 gr |
| Period | Urartu |
All of the 40 buttons with their middle part bumped and edges flat are ornamented in the same way with a granule technique. There is a six - leaf rosette motif in the middle and there are puffed circles wrapped with points on the perimetre. There are double stitching rings on the lower side. It must have been left in the grave of a woman being stitched on a cloth.
 | Name: | The Knobs |
| Type: | Gold |
| Location where it came from: | Gordion |
| Way of Coming: | Exc. find |
| Dimensions:: | H:1.3cm W:2.9cm |
| Weight: | 5.15 gr |
| Period: | The 7-6th century BC |
It is formed by placing two rosettes, one having 12 leaves and the other having 8 leaves, one inside the other and by attaching these two rosettes from their middle parts. The sharp projection on the rear side is used for attaching it to the cloth.
 | Name: | A Needle |
| Type: | Bronze, gold and karneol |
| Location where it came from: | Alacahöyük |
| Way of Coming: | Exc. find |
| Dimensions: | H: 15.7cm W:1.4cm |
| Weight: | 12gr. |
| Period: | The Ancient Bronze Period |
The end of a round profiled bronze body is sharp, there is a golden head with five korneols on it on the head part. A corneol, both sides of which are limited with scales is attached to the head with nails hammered through the holes in the scales and the corneols.
 | Name: | A Needle |
| Type: | Gold, bone and agat |
| Location where it came from: | Çorum |
| Way of Coming: | Purchase |
| Dimensions:: | L:6.8cm W:1.1cm |
| Weight: | 2 gr. |
| Period: | The Ancient Bronze Period |
Its sphere shaped head and transition to the body are gold coated. The coating is ornamented with leaf motifs and vertical lines. The needle part is made of bone and the end is corroded. A small agate is placed on the head, at the top.
 | Name: | Needle |
| Type: | Silver |
| Location where it came from: | Karataş, Semayük |
| Way of Coming: | Exc. find |
| Dimensions: | L:8.5cm W:1.2cm |
| Period: | 2500 BC |
It has a head of a hog. There is a hole passing through the body longitudinally on the part that slightly expands after the neck that is divided with four grooves at the body passage. After that, there are cross line ornaments on the body.
 | Name: | Needle |
| Type: | Bronze |
| Location where it came from: | Patnos |
| Way of Coming: | Purchase |
| Dimensions:: | H:8.3cm |
| Weight: | 12.39 gr. |
| Period: | The Urartu period |
It is one of the four - bird protome needles. A bead under the protome combines with the strong body with a bracelet passage. There is a round hole below the bracelet.