Earring ca. 8th-7th century B.C. Iran This silver earring consists of a bent loop attached to a pendant comprised of several hollow spheres soldered together with granulation decorating the seams between them. It was excavated at Tepe Nush-i Jan, an Iron Age hilltop site about 60 km sound of Hamadan in western Iran. Nush-i Jan was occupied in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., and its occupants are generally thought to be the Medes, an Iranian people known from Assyrian, Achaemenid and Biblical sources. Though the textual sources portray them as a powerful empire, archaeological evidence for the Medes has yet to sustain this impression. Rather, they seem to have lived in scattered fortified sites in western and central Iran, without any clear capital. Nush-i Jan, one of the best known of these sites, features two temples, a columned hall, and a fort, where the earring was found.The earring was discovered in a bronze bowl containing 231 pieces of silver, including jewelry, ingots and scrap

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Earring ca. 8th-7th century B.C. Iran This silver earring consists of a bent loop attached to a pendant comprised of several hollow spheres soldered together with granulation decorating the seams between them. It was excavated at Tepe Nush-i Jan, an Iron Age hilltop site about 60 km sound of Hamadan in western Iran. Nush-i Jan was occupied in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., and its occupants are generally thought to be the Medes, an Iranian people known from Assyrian, Achaemenid and Biblical sources. Though the textual sources portray them as a powerful empire, archaeological evidence for the Medes has yet to sustain this impression. Rather, they seem to have lived in scattered fortified sites in western and central Iran, without any clear capital. Nush-i Jan, one of the best known of these sites, features two temples, a columned hall, and a fort, where the earring was found.The earring was discovered in a bronze bowl containing 231 pieces of silver, including jewelry, ingots and scrap

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