Male Necklaces in the East and West

doi:10.1017/9781009151016.026

18 - Male Necklaces in the East and West

from Part VI - Shared Forms, Distinct Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023

Alexis Q. Castor

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Elizabeth P. Baughan and

Lisa C. Pieraccini

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Elizabeth P. Baughan: Affiliation:
University of Richmond, Virginia
Lisa C. Pieraccini: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

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Luxurious dress and jewelry were important in public self-representation in Perso-Anatolian and Etruscan cultures. What distinguishes jewelry use in these societies is that jewelry was equally significant for elite males as it was for females. In fact, most of the visual evidence for jewelry in the East comes from ornaments worn by soldiers, court officials, and kings. Persian, Anatolian, and Lydian women are rarely represented in the surviving art, making it unusually difficult to reconstruct the jewelry styles and types they favored. Etruscan men, too, showed themselves with rings, bracelets and armbands, necklaces, and earrings. This chapter examines the male adoption of jewelry and explores the meanings of personal ornaments in both cultures.

Keywords

jewelry Etruscan Persian Achaemenid bullae identity royal bracelets gender

Type: Chapter
Information: Etruria and Anatolia
Material Connections and Artistic Exchange
, pp. 318 - 332

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009151016.026 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2023

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