VRA Core 4 Example 9: Diadem from jewelry cache

Work record [refid 20]
agent	unknown (Anatolian)
culturalContext	Anatolian
date	1873 (discovery); ca. 2500-2000 BCE (creation)
description	Sixty-four vertical chains made of double links are suspended from a long narrow band with three perforations at each rounded triangular end. Fifty short chains constitute the central part, and seven long chains frame it at each side. Rhomboid plaques with a raised, perforated central rib are hung on the chains at equal intervals every four links. All the chains have idol-shaped pendants. There are eleven of the rhomboid plaques threaded on to each of the long chains, and just four on each of the short chains. The vertical chains are linked together in the middle by a horizontal chain; the long chains on the side have two additional horizontal plates, one after the second and another after the third row of plaques of the longer parts of the chains. The idol-shaped pendants are decorated with hammered and embossed decoration.
inscription
location	Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Muzey Izobrazitelnykh Iskusstv Imeni A.S. Pushkina) (Moscow, Rossiya, Russia) A 5876 [repository] Hisarlik, Marmara, Turkey [discovery] [location note] Probably found within or just outside the walls of Troy II.
material	gold
measurements	85.52 gm (weight)
relation	formerlyPartOf Priam's Treasure [Core 4 Sample Database, refid="20" relids="w_19"]
rights
source	Core 4 Sample Database (VCat) [source, description] Tostikov, Vladimir P.; The Gold of Troy. Searching for Homer's Fabled City, New York: H. N. Abrams, 1996
stateEdition
stylePeriod	Early Bronze Age
subject	death or burial; decorative arts; grave goods; jewelry; goldwork
technique	hammering; metalworking
textref
title	Small diadem with pendants [en, descriptive, preferred]
worktype	costume (mode of fashion); headgear; headbands (headgear); diadems; jewelry