Snake Pendants
These bronze decorations likely were worn on the chest and may have been designed to represent snakes.
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 12 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bead Earring
Material: Chalcedony
Height: 6.5 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bead Chain
Material: Chalcedony
Height: 42 cm, Width: 0.5-1.5 cm +/-
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bead Chain
This single strand of alluring carnelian beads found in the Zayamchai necropolis in the Shamkir district of Azerbaijan in 2003 dates to the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. Beads like these were painstakingly crafted by hand. Najaf Müseyibli suggests that they were not only worn for their beauty, but also sometimes for the magical and spiritual protection they were thought to provide the wearer, or for their curative value.
Material: Chalcedony
Height: 68 cm, Width: 0.5-1.5 cm +/-
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Ceramic Bowl
Material: Clay
Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Bronze Bracelet
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 5.5 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Needle
Material: Bronze
Thickness: 3 cm, Length: 9 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bronze Pendants
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 6 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bronze Objects
Various bronze pendants
Zayamchai
Ram Figurine Made from Bronze.
Material: Bronze
Height: 5 cm, Width: 5.5 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bronze Objects
Ram figurine displayed with bronze pendants.
Zayamchai
Bronze Collection
Display of bronze spear points and pendants.
Zayamchai
Pot
Material: Ceramic
Height: 19 cm, Width: 21 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Pot
Material: Ceramic
Height: 19 cm, Width: 21 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Jug
Material: Ceramic
Height: 27 cm, Width: 25 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Pot
Material: Ceramic
Height: 19 cm, Width: 20 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Pot
Material: Ceramic
Height: 17 cm, Width: 14 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Pot
Material: Ceramic
Height: 28 cm, Width: 15 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Storage Vessel Handle Detail
Material: Ceramic
Height: 23 cm, Width: 20 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Storage Vessel
Material: Ceramic
Height: 23 cm, Width: 20 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Pot
Material: Ceramic
Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 25 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Pot
Material: Ceramic
Height: 14 cm, Width: 15 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Pitcher
Zayamchai
Ceramic Platform
This distinctive three-legged shallow footed vessel is decorated across its top and bottom
Material: Ceramic.
Height: 8 cm, Width: 21 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Ceramic Platform Underneath
Material: Ceramic
Height: 8 cm, Width: 21 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Ceramic Platform Sketch
Profile and nether view of ceramic platform.
Material: Ceramic
Height: 8 cm, Width: 21 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Bronze Dagger with Disjoined Handles
Zayamchai
Bronze Dagger
Material: Bronze
Height: 18.5 cm, Width: 7.5 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bronze Dagger Handles
Material: Bronze
Height: 4 cm, Diameter: 3.5 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bronze Pendant
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 3.5 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bronze Pendant
This symmetrical bronze pendant, found at the Zayamchai archaeological site in the Shamkir district of Azerbaijan in 2003, dates from the 13th-12th centuries BC, the Bronze Age. It has a diameter of 10.5 centimeters. The design may symbolize the sun according to scholars in the Caucasus, a symbol of warmth and fecundity.
Zayamchai
Cooking Vessels
Zayamchai
Storage Vessels
Zayamchai
Decorated Pottery
Zayamchai
Bronze Earrings
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 3.5 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Bronze Rings
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 2.5 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Zayamchai
Vessel
This highly decorated vessel found from the Zayamchai necropolis was a churn and used to produce butter from milk. Similar vessels are still used in parts of Azerbaijan today to produce homemade butter.
Material: Ceramic
Height: 42 cm, Width: 30 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Zayamchai
Bronze Spear Point Fastened to Wooden Shaft
Material: Bronze
Length: 8 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Tovuzchai
8 Beads
Material: Seashell
Diameter: 2 cm, Thread Hole Diameter: 0.7 - 1 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Tovuzchai
12 Beads
Material: Chalcedony
Diameter: 0.3 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Tovuzchai
Bone Beads
Tovuzchai
Bronze Bracelet
Material: Bronze
Height: 2, Diameter: 16 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Tovuzchai
Bronze Earrings
Material: Bronze
Height: 3.5, Width: 3.5 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Tovuzchai
Piggin
Material: Ceramic
Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 18 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Tovuzchai
Piggin Handle Detail
Material: Ceramic
Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 18 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Tovuzchai
Cup
Material: Ceramic
Height: 7 cm
Rim Diameter: 26 cm, Body Diameter: 25 cm, Base Diameter: 9 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Tovuzchai
Piggin
Material: Ceramic
Height: 26 cm, Width: 21 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Tovuzchai
Storage Vessel
Material: Ceramic
Height: 33 cm, Width: 26 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Tovuzchai
Pot
This handsome ceramic pot, which is 28.5 centimeters high and 31 centimeters wide, was found in the Tovuzchai necropolis in the Tovuz region of Azerbaijan in 2004. It dates from the 12th - 11th centuries BC. A highly stylized zoomorphic ornament on its upper side represents either a snake or a horse. Many scholars in the Caucasus today interpret zoomorphic images such as these to be linked to magic or fertility rituals or decorations.
Tovuzchai
Pot Detail
Tovuzchai
Jug
Material: Ceramic
Height: 19.5 cm, Mouth Diameter: 13.5 cm, Body Diameter: 26.5 cm, Base Diameter: 9 cm
Date: XII-VIII BC
Tovuzchai
Needles
Material: Bronze
Length: 14 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Tovuzchai
Bronze Rings
Material: Bronze
Diameter: large – 4 cm, small – 3 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Tovuzchai
Bronze Snake Pendant
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 7.4 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Tovuzchai
Javelin Spearhead
Material: Bronze
Length: 16 cm
Date: Bronze Age
Tovuzchai
