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Jewelery in Anatolia

Anatolian jewelery is a four thousand years old art. This unique art, was born from the essence of Anatolian Civilizations. Created measureless shapes. Produced beauty, color and light. Every shape that is created also became an idea. Anatolian former jewellers, was turned ideas, philosophies and dreams into the jeweleries. Jewlery became the shape of immortalty. The master from the Alacahoyuklu, was reborn every time when he looked at the crowns that he made for the princess.


Anatolian jewelery masters, while they are turning the golds which they were derived from nature with washing method into the artwork, they polished them with the fine sand. However this method, was never seen or never known before ‘til then. So, after examining the jeweleries in Alacahoyuk, it is apparently that the Anatolian Jewelleres since the Bronze Age, right along with the swaging, casting, clinching, coating techniques, they also discovered the embossing, granulating, puncturing, nailing, filigring and ornamenting with colored Stones. Besides, they also created a brand new art syntheses in Jewelery called ‘Oriantalisan’ using with ruby, emerald, agate, aquamarine, garnet, karneol, sard, plasma, amethyst and also gold, silver. Probably, they created oldest east and West synthesis by creating crescent, spiral shapes, pomegranate and acorn patterns over the crown, earring, broch, clasp and belts.


Jeweller from Gultepe, became eternal with golden earring that he made four thousand years before, The master from the Alacahoyuklu, was reborn every time when he looked at the crowns that he made for the princess. Krezus, refreshend under the light of the gold. Today, that we are admiring in museums golden thrones decorated with chrysolite, ruby and jade stones, gives us the glory of the past. Golden cribs decorated with diamond, ruby and emerald brings princes to our present day.