Braganza Brooch

 #Braganza Brooch Greek Brooches

What a beauty. Given the size and shape I suspect this was for pinning a heavier woolen garment and probably given the warrior holding a shield a cape for a man and maybe also a military cape  ? 

Do remember while admiring this that most people would have only been able to afford the simple style of pins I posted earlier.

Ancient Greek Gold Earrings

Ancient Greek Gold Earrings 

 These were found in Cyprus. There was a fashion even an obsession with Griffins in the Archaic period here expressed as lions with griffin ears and serpent tails forming the spiral for inserting the earrings into a pierced ear or an already inserted loop? Or perhaps these are just lions depicted?

They are however quite exquisite!