Boat Earrings with Pendants

The earring pendants are hollow boats decorated with filigree and granulated triangles. On the horns of the boats, a row of granules and spiral-wrapped wire precedes duck-shaped finials and long hoops. From loops soldered on the body of the boats dangle eight or ten loop-in-loop chains with duck-shaped pendants. These, like the finials, are formed of two stamped halves soldered together.
The pair was found in a burial of a noble Scythian woman; her garments were embroidered with gold plaques. The neck of the buried was decorated with a gold necklace, which consisted of shaped head-alike beads, and a necklace with glass beads. Origins of the earrings of such form are connected to the image of the moon-shaped boat. Dr K. Hadachek thinks this image originated in the third millennia BCE in the decorative art of Egypt. He attributes its final design to the Mediterranean region in the first millennia BCE. Some scholars attribute the origins of these adornments to the Territory of the Danube River and the Mediterranean region in the second millennia BCE.
Many different types of boat earrings are known and appeared in the North Black Sea region and Scythia in the 7th century BCE and widesperad in the 4th century BCE. V. Petrenko, while researching findings of such earrings from the Scythian burials, found out that each pair is entirely individual.