[Jewelry making - Article 00377] - Re: [Orchid] Platinum enhanced sterling?

[Len and Judy Bjorkman]

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    Leonid, here are some references to electrum, mainly in ancient
    Mesopotamia; some of them occasionally mention Egypt. 

    --P.R.S Moorey, _Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries_
    (Oxford; 1994) pp. 217ff. 

    --Karin Reiter, _Die Metalle im Alten Orient_ (Munster; 1997) pp.
    2-3 (the oldest known gold objects currently come from a cemetery at
    Varna, in Bulgaria, and date to sometime in the 5th millennium BC;
    some fascinating electrum rings were found in a cave at Nahal Kana
    (Israel/Palestine) and date to the 4th millennium BC; see _Current
    Anthropology_, vol. 31 [1990] pp. 436-443) 

    --K.R. Maxwell-Hyslop, _Western Asiatic Jewellery_ (Methuen; 1971)
    pp. lxiv-lxvi 

    --Jack Ogden, _Jewellery of the Ancient World_ (Rizzoli; 1982) p.
    18ff. 

    --Joan Aruz (ed.), _Art of the First Cities_ (Yale U. Press; 2003),
    see pp. 116-117 (electrum artifacts from the Royal Cemetery at Ur,
    dating to about 2500 BC), p. 265 (Anatolia), p. 302 (Susa, Iran). 

Judy Bjorkman
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