Oxus treasure

The Oxus Treasure includes outstanding and characteristic examples of Achaemenian metalwork.

…armlets are included in the Oxus treasure, a collection of Persian art of the Achaemenidian period (6th–4th century bc) now in the British Museum, London. One of the armlets consists of a circular gold band with its two ends meeting in the form of finely worked griffins. Armlets are especially…

…embellished with inlay, from the Oxus Treasure. A series of silver dishes (State Hermitage Museum) from the end of the 1st millennium bce are, on the other hand, decorated with scenes from the tragedies of the Greek dramatist Euripides and Greco-Roman mythology rendered in a Hellenized style. Other silver dishes…