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Lovely!!!
It's a great piece!
I love this, Hillary (had not seen it before). I is certainly very, very early, with a beautiful naturalness and wear to it - very tribal. But I fear I don't immediately recognise it. Surely someone would be bound to know? If you like, I can try it out on Facebook for you - but I'd need your permission, I feel. Just as you like!
Hello Joost, I believe that Ayis said that he thought it was Nubian. Feel free to post it! The silver is very high grade and has such a satiny feel to it.
Hello Hillary. I recall having seen a piece similar to this on internet. I cannot remember the site. It was described as Bedouin from Southern Turkey.
From other Nubian bracelets I have looked at I would support Alaa's (Ayis's) identification as at least very plausible. But ... I shall put it on Facebook right now and ask the multitude there! It should be quite interesting to see. In several cases I get a satisfactory response from a knowledgeable person. With the post recent piece of jewellery I posted it was ... Alaa/Ayis!!
well since i made the statement about nubia i found out that even if worn by nubian women it shall be considered as originatig from the bejas and bishariya tribes near the red sea coast
I thought I had posted my comment earlier, but obviously not, so here it is again. I also vote Nubian from the Red Sea area. A very similar bracelet can be seen in Azza Fahmy's book Enchanted Jewelery of Egypt. I enclose the picture here. The left middle bracelet looks very similar, though the doming is different, it could be that the ridges have worn out from wearing, so supporting an old well worn piece. Here is the picture from the book.
The distinction which you make below, Alaa, between one might say "strictly Nubian" on the one hand and "from the bejas and bishariya tribes on the other", strikes me as very interesting, for although I can see a relationship with the pieces which Nada shows us and which I know better, I also think that this piece (Hillary's) is significantly different in some ways - and to my mind superior, though that may be a matter of weight, age, and patina. Thank you both for the informative material. And Alaa, thanks for the comment on Facebook.
Just a note- my piece has five spikes. The single-width bracelets below have 6 or more spikes.
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