Mycenaean Jewelry

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Both Mycenaean men and women wore jewelry.  Jewelry was handcrafted from gold, silver, semiprecious stones, and glass paste.  From some of the finds in Mycenaean and Minoan tombs, wealthy women also sewed wafer-thin gold or silver appliqués to their clothing.  Imagine their skirts chiming and tinkling as they walked.

Examples of gold bead bracelets and necklaces.

Some of the gold adornments, particularly the finds from Mycenae's Grave Circle A, are so thin and fragile they must have been made strictly for burial.  One example is the wafer-thin pendant depicting a goddess with foliage sprouting from her head, shown below.

Crowns were made from thin, beaten gold sewn onto cloth strips, such as this famous spoked diadem.  It is very large, and must have made quite an impression.  Clytaemnestra would have worn something like this.  Below the diadem are examples of the appliqués women wore on their clothing.
 

Below is a modern version of a Mycenaean/Minoan semiprecious and gold necklace.  The materials are agate, aventurine, and vermeil.  Ancient women would have worn two or three such necklaces, of varying lengths, at once.