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These are the ruins of Amberd Fortress in Aragatsotn Province in what's present-day Armenia. The fortress was founded in the 7th century CE, while Armenia was ruled by the Kamsarakan princes. The Pahlavuni, Zakaryan, Vachutyan noble families...

The Amberd Fortress dates from the 7th century CE, and it is located on the slopes of Mount Aragats at an altitude of 2300 m (7546 ft)in the province of Aragatsotn, Armenia. Its name translates as "fortress in the clouds" in Armenian.

Gold vessel with a long spout that would probably have been used as a drinking straw, from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, Early Dynastic Period, c. 2600 BCE. The British Museum, London.

Amulet of the Norse goddess Freyja. It is a copy of a find of a Viking period silver amulet from Aska in Hagebyhöga parish, Aska hundred, Vadstena municipality, Östergötland, Sweden.

Depiction connected with Norse mythology based on the Old Norse Þrymskviða poem in which Thor dresses up as Freyja to travel to giantland - the giant Thrym has stolen his hammer and demands Freyja as condition for its return. Freyja refuses...

Depiction by Johannes Gehrts of the Norse goddess Freyja, here seen with her cat-drawn carriage and wearing the necklace Brísingamen.

Norse goddess Freyja putting on her necklace Brísingamen, painting by James Doyle Penrose (1862-1932).

A silver rhyton from Yerznka, ancient Armenia, 5th century BCE when it was ruled by the Orontid dynasty.

Silver. Weight: e.g. 9,6 gr., 9,9 gr., 10,4 gr. – Persian stater;
 e.g. 8,7 gr., 9,2 gr., – Attic didrachm.

d≈18/20-21/23 mm.

 Obverse: Archaic female head to the right within the linear circle (the same as on the II type hemidrachm).

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Silver. Weight – 5,52 gr.

d=17/19 mm.

 Obverse: Lion’s head facing.

 Reverse: Bull’s head to the right in quadratum incusum. Mint: Phasis. Nominal: Siglos of the Persian system Date: 5th c. BCE.