Jewellery from the Necropolis of Priniàs (Crete)

Aim of the poster is to present some preliminary remarks on the study of the jewellery found in the tombs of the Necropolis of Siderospilia at Priniàs (Crete) during the excavations carried out by the University of Catania in the seventies of the last century. Finds mostly consist of small gold artefacts - pendants, finger rings, earrings, clothing plaques - and of rock crystal, faience, glass and hard stone beads, most of them formerly belonging to necklaces. This group of precious objects represents one of the most relevant complexes of materials of such type, greater than those found in the necropolis of Knossos and only inferior to those of Eleutherna as regards the amount.