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Gold jewelry from Alalakh, solar disc, eye, zigzap patterns

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Solar disc, eye, and zigzag designs on gold jewelry from Alalakh

Gold jewelry from Alalakh

Late Bronze Age

From Levels IV-II (1500 - 1270 B.C.)

These delicately worked pendants and finer ring show similarities to the jewelry from Tell el-Ajjul, and are undoubtedly of Canaanite manufacture.

WA 126059; 1938-1-8, 109-112; 1938-7-5, 63; 1939-6-13, 93

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Solar disc, eye, and zigzag designs on gold jewelry from Alalakh
Taken on  Monday 17th of August 2015
Device: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Model: SP800UZ
Genre:  1500 - 1270 B.C.
Source:  London, United Kingdom
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