Jewelry from the Al-Kafeel Museum, Holy Abbasid Shrine (An Archaeological and Artistic Study) Selected Examples

Abstract

  A sheds light on the study of jewelry as one of the types of personal adornment, and it is made of precious metals. We note that jewelry is considered a symbol of elegance and luxury. Hence, the need arises to study luxury in the design of jewelry and jewelry, and you can see the elements of adornment that are made of metals and stones, which actually demonstrate status or status. The situation in which the social class was distinguished from each other by precious stones and the possibility of them acquiring jewelry according to their social place. The research is an artistic collective study of a group of models of jewelry that were kept by the Al-Kafeel Museum in the Holy Abbasid Shrine, and the jewelry that was made among others varied according to their lack of renewal on the body of them. Crystal jewelry. Neck and hand ornaments, ear ornaments, and the belts with which clothes are tightened. These ornaments were made of precious metals, gold and silver, and some of them were decorated with precious stones, and the artist executed various floral, geometric, and scriptural decorations on them.