 Bracelets - Armillae
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Here is a collection of bracelets for you to enjoy.
The Latin term for bracelet is armilla.
A small description in provided for each of them.
Pictures are taken from various sites, clicking on the image will take you to them.
A popular style of jewelry apparently invented by the Romans was made of hollow, polished gold hemispheres fashioned into necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. These jewels date to the 1st century AD. |
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Naples, Archaeological Museum |
These bracelets are from the 1st-2nd century CE and they are styled in a snake-form which was a popular fashion. |
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A gold snake bracelet with carved scales |
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Gold bracelets often had the form of snakes. |
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London, Victoria & Albert Museum |
Rome, Palazzo Massimo |
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Silver bracelet with a portrait of a child |
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Cologne, R-G Museum |
This pair of bracelets follows an ancient Etrurian style that was present from the end on the 8th c. BC. Similar kinds of bracelets were found in Marsiliana d’Albegna, Cerveteri, Tarquinia, Populonia and Vetulonia. |
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Musée du Louvre |
