Realms Of Gold The Novel: February 2013

Gold of Troy: Golden Sauce Boat With Two Handles

Gold of Troy: Priam's Treasure - Gold Jewelry

The gold work of Troy, found by Schliemann. Found in the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul.

The gold of Troy: Earrings.

Earrings that resemble the ones worn by Heinrich Schliemann’s wife in photographs. Found in the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul.

Gold of Troy: Priam's Treasure - Gold Cups, Rings and Vases

Found in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

Gold of Troy: Priam's Treasure - Gold Pendants

Detail from gold diadem with pendants. Sixty-four small chains, each with links interspaced by gold-leaf lozenges, are suspended from a long, narrow band with 3 holes on each end. The shorter central chains are framed on each side by seven longer chains that converge and terminate in four gold-leaf pendants. This image shows one of these side groups. Found by Schliemann at Troy.

Gold of Troy: Priam's Treasure

Selection of gold diadems, necklaces, bracelets, rings, and assorted gold and bronze vessels found by Schliemann at Troy. Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

Ancient Gold: Ram's Head

Ram's head rock-crystal bracelet styled like a torque (ca. 330-300 B.C.). Found in Macedonia, near Thessaloniki.

The Glauberg Gold Torc

On the Glauberg torc no less than ten human face-masks dominate the ring itself, while two grotesque figures with enlarged heads flank the pendant composition.

The meaning of these faces is not easy to read, though in some instances they could have served as apotropaic symbols.

source: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CELTIC ART - D.W. Harding

Terry Stanfill, born in West Haven, Connecticut, is a first generation American of Italian descent. She received a degree in English Literature and Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut.

For her efforts in raising funds for the restoration of San Pietro di Castello, the ancient cathedral of Venice, the President of Italy honored her with the Ordine al Merito, Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana, and Commendatore. She is Vice President Emerita of Save Venice, Inc, and was founder of The California Chapter of Save Venice, Inc.

Terry Stanfill is a founding director and Life Trustee of Los Angeles Opera. She is a Governor Emerita of the board of The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California as well as a Reader, her subject of research, the Normans in Southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries inspired her to write her first novel, The Blood Remembers.

Terry is married to Dennis Stanfill, former CEO of Twentieth Century Fox, and MGM.

Their daughter Francesca Stanfill Nye, is a novelist and journalist.

Their son, Dennis, is partner and managing director of HBDesign, Singapore.

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The images you'll see as you scroll down to the current text are all part of the story telling in my novel, Realms of Gold:Ritual to Romance.

Bianca Caldwell, pen name, Bianca Fiore, is a writer for an art magazine. In each of her monthly stories she describes an object used in ancient ritual.