I feel as though I simply blinked and all of a sudden the Easter holidays are over leaving me full and groggy from all that good food and good cheer. The chocolate! I could not refuse. Not even if I tried.
Feasts aside, and on an unrelated note, here is my gift to you. Care for this golden bracelet from the second quarter of the 1st century AD on a Friday morning?
The actual artifact (which this painting is based upon) is made from thin gold thread with spiral ends twisted together as fasteners. The stones and fragments incorporated within the bracelet are turquoise, glass cabochon and amber, and ceramic too. Apparently each of those elements were originally ascribed with various magical properties.
