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Jewellery
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The "meander" is a geometric ornament that was used first by the ancient Greeks and then the Romans to decorate their homes, yet even in their clothing. It consists of a series of straight lines connected together at right or curved lines forming maneuvers. It took its name from the river Meandros of Asia Minor which formed such maneuvers. In one of the bridges over the river meander the ancients had set up a statue of the eponymous God imagined him as his son Ocean. In the maze that is simple or complex the ancient mosaic decorated the floor as well as the jars, painting or carving them on the marble. The most ancient monuments, on which we first found this jewelry line, are many tombs in Asia Minor and even the so-called tomb of Midas in Phrygia, whose stone facade is decorated entirely by meanders. In Greece meander was found on vases of the Geometric period, showing that evolution is the continuous spiral of the Mycenaean period. Features samples of this issue at this time offer so-called Dipilou vases, which are exposed in the Archaeological Museum of Athens. The meander, shown on these pots, initially took the form of simple curved line segments which run horizontally and vertically alternately. During the Hellenistic period that the formula gets more complex, the curved line doubled and filled the squares formed between the lines formed by dots or crosses or other similar issues. However, the use of this linear shape is not just for decoration of vases and temples and clothing. The temples are decorated by meander, usually in color, the architraves, the capes and the roof panels and columns, the clothes and the edges. Nice examples of meander on garments are provided by the daughters of the Acropolis. The ancient limestone and marble female statues found in the Acropolis museum. The veil, worn these forms, decorated at the edge with other colored jewelry (crosses, rosettes, flowers) and meanders. Through the years “MEANDROS” was established as the “GREEK SYMBOL” and symbolized the eternity and happiness. |