Silver
7th-6th c. BC
Empúries (L’Escala – Alt Empordà)
On 26 June 1899, Salvador Casadevall from L’Escala sold a lot of 75 diverse objects from Empúries to the Monuments Commission for 309 pesetas. Number 72 on the list was a silver diadem or frontal (in several pieces) with several apparently corresponding accessories.
The diadem is about 24 cm long and 4 cm wide and is articulated. It is made up of a mesh of six rows of small rings soldered vertically and joined horizontally by folded laminae decorated with parallel incisions. At each end is a triangular plate decorated with circles in relief, on one of the vertices of which the clasp (now missing) was held. It has been dated to between the 7th and 6th centuries BC.
The mentioned “accessories” are a circular silver pendant decorated with raised circles, and a small rectangular plaque, also silver, with a similar decoration. They were sold together with the diadem, but were not part of it, although they may have been items from the same jewellery set.
