Babylonian Sun Shield Pendant - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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New - Babylonian Sun Shield Pendant

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The design of our pendant is based on a detail from an elaborate necklace created in Mesopotamia between the 17th and 16th centuries B.C. The original necklace, now in the Museum’s collection, is composed of a double row of gold beads from which seven pendants featuring deities are suspended. Our pendant is adapted from one that shows a disk with rays emanating from the central boss, representing the sun god, Shamash. Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was the heart of the ancient Near East. As early as the 7th millennium B.C., these two rivers were major routes of travel and communication as well as sources of irrigation. It was in this region during the 4th millennium B.C. that urban civilization first evolved. For the next five thousand years, southern Mesopotamia sustained successive thriving cultures. The capital cities of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Seleucids, and Parthians all lay in this fertile agricultural region.

18K gold overlay, with a matte finish. Pendant diameter 1 3/4 in.; chain length 24 in.

Babylonian Sun Shield Pendant
09-088550
Member Price: $202.50 each
Non-Member Price: $225.00 each

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New - Minoan Pendant-Disk Necklace Member Prices: $130.50–$256.50 Non-Member Prices: $145.00–$285.00		New - Babylonian Sun Shield Pin Member Prices: $30.38–$63.00 Non-Member Prices: $33.75–$70.00		Sale - Babylonian Sun Shield Earrings Member Prices: $23.63–$31.50 Non-Member Prices: $26.25–$35.00

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