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Jewellery from the Yria sanctuary on Naxos

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• Σημαντώνη-Μπουρνιά, Εύα

The quantity of jewellery excavated in the Sanctuary of Yria, Naxos, is considerable compared to what was found in other Naxian Sanctuaries. Among the best preserved pieces are two bronze and one ivory figure of eihgt fibulae, dated at the late 8th /early 7th cent. BC, and two arched fibulae, of the island type, of about the same period.A silver earing, half of which is preserved, and a bronze finger-ring are both dated by context to the late 7th cent. A second bronze finger ring has a bezel with an undecipherable decoration, very like the “worm- eaten” surface decorating a certain group of early stamps; it can be dated by parallels to the 4th cent. BC. On the floor of the early archaic hestiatorion an exellently preserved bronze bracelet was discovered; it was made of bronze beads stuck together. Its closest parallels are dated to the late 7th/early 6th cent.Two pendants, a small bronze bird and a chiselled cowry shell are dated by context and by parallels between 700 and the first quarter of the 7th cent. BC.With the exception of the bronze bracelet all other items were discovered in front of the marble threshhold of the adyton of the archaic temple or around the clay hearth, underneath; They belong to the period of use of temple III and to the open-air cult, and most of them must have being rescued from the debris of temple III by worshipers and deposited in front of and around the clay hearth. The trade routes by which the models of the above jewellery have reached the island are briefly examined.

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