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The settings often use gold or precious stones. Rock crystal vessels often have ha pear-shaped body, beaked rim, and a handle, which originally had a vertical thumb piece that connected the rim of the ewer to the lower part of the body. The designs on the ewer go around the neck and down the body and onto its handle.
An arm ring, also known as an armlet or an armband, is a band of metal, usually a precious metal, worn as jewelry or an ornament around the biceps of the upper arm. The arm ring is similar to a bracelet or bangle , though it must be shaped and sized to fit snugly to the upper arm.
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In conjunction with gold jewellery, Egyptians used coloured glass, along with semi-precious gems. The colour of the jewellery had significance. Green, for example, symbolised fertility. Lapis lazuli and silver had to be imported from beyond the country's borders. Egyptian designs were most common in Phoenician jewellery.
An armilla (plural armillae) was an armband awarded as a military decoration (donum militarium) to soldiers of ancient Rome for conspicuous gallantry. Legionary (citizen) soldiers and non-commissioned officers below the rank of centurion were eligible for this award, but non-citizen soldiers were not. [1]
Mosan armilla, enamelled gilt-copper, 1170s, now Germanisches Nationalmuseum.The pair in the Louvre is here The Monomachus Crown, possibly an armilla. An armill or armilla (from the Latin: armillae remains the plural of armilla) is a type of medieval bracelet, or armlet, normally in metal and worn in pairs, one for each arm.
Circular in design, Sri Ksetra was more than 13 km (8.1 mi) in circumference and three to four km across, or about 1400 hectares of occupied area. The city's brick walls were 4.5 metres (15 ft) high, and had 12 gates with huge devas (deities) guarding the entrances and a pagoda at each of the four corners.