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Clothing and Personal Adornment: Anatolia

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In Anatolia there is little evidence for dress, but finds from Alaca Höyük (ca. 2300 B.C.) include toggle pins for fastening garments, diadems, and jewelry.

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Images, from top to bottom: Mould for jewelry, seals, and amulets, late 3rd millennium B.C.; Early Bronze Age. Anatolia, Titris Höyük, house. Urfa Museum, Turkey  TH 60632. Quadruple-spiral beads, ca. 2500–2300 B.C.; Early Bronze Age. Anatolia, Troy, Level II, Treasure D. Istanbul Archaeological Museum  689a,b.



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