Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: They date back to the 5th century…

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Here are 84 gold hares, each one around 1.1cm long. They're each slightly different, but it's hard to choose a favourite. Every one of these hares was excavated from the same grave at Nymphaeum in the Crimea.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

23 июл., 10:01

They date back to the 5th century BCE and were originally appliqués used as decoration on a woman's dress. We can only imagine how striking it must have looked. The hare was important in the culture where this dress was made and worn.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

23 июл., 10:01

There's a significant story about Scythian soldiers being distracted by a hare and abandoning battle to chase it. Gold also comes with a meaning and has been linked to power and wealth for centuries. See them on display in Gallery 16, Level G. Jewellery, 500–401 BCE. Gold. AN1885.469