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Treasure of Gaio, 7th c. BC, Sines, Alentejo

2006 Preventive Conservation

Storage and packaging of an ensemble of artefacts (7th c. BC) in gold, silver, ivory and in less worth materials, exhumed [1966] in Herdade do Gaio, near Sines (Alentejo), which belongs to the Treasure of Gaio*.

* In this Punic treasure with Egyptian symbolism, from the Museum of Sines is figured, in the earrings, the goddess Hathor (a goddess much venerated in Egypt linked to love, eroticism, fecundity, maternity and births) and embossed, in the ivory seal, the scarab of Tuthmosis III, with the eye of the Sun God Horus, which protected the birth of children.

Acknowledgements Municipality of Sines

Artefact packed in a polypropylene box lined with polyethylene foam.
Artefacts packed in a polypropylene box lined with polyethylene foam.
Artefacts packed in a polypropylene box lined with polyethylene foam.
Artefacts packed in a polypropylene box lined with polyethylene foam.