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Young artists and students are also very keen on making Top quality Gucci necklaces and will put a lot of attention and heart into their work, this is something that will be very hard to find in today's market.The first written references connected to Peridot, appear in the Septuagint's translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek dating from 300 B.C. The Septuagint, a group of seventy-two rabbis, was commissioned by the Pharaoh Ptolemy II to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek for inclusion into the library of Alexandria, these documents would come to be known as the christian Old Testament.According to the Septuagint, the Hebrew word 'Pitdah' in Exodus chapter 28 was translated to the Greek 'Topazion': this was Greek for Peridot.
This translation, as we shall see was wrong, but before detailing the Septuagint's error, we must first get an overview of the events described in the Exodus passage, their time and location:Around 1444 B.C., Moses and the high priests were delivering the Hebrew slaves out of Egyptian captivity under Pharaoh Amunhotep II.
One of the high priests called Aaron was commanded to make an ephod, a type of apron, and to attach a breastplate to it. Aaron was instructed to mount the breastplate, containing the mystical Urim and Thummim, with 12 gems in sequential order each one representing one of the 12 Israelite tribes.
The breastplate measured a span in each direction (approx 8-9 inches), which meant that the gems might have measured up to as much as 2 to 2 inches each. Where could the slaves have found gems such as these in such sizes?The 'Topaz' we know today was only officially recognized in the 17th century, at least 100 hundred years after the 'King James Version.' In addition, at the time of the translation Topaz was used to describe a multitude of yellow to yellow-green transparent gemstones...including Peridot. Relative to points 1 and 2 the 'King James Version' brings up the subject of expense. On this, the 16th Century Jesuit priest and philosopher Cornelis Cornelissen Van Den Steen surmises that the price of gems such as these would have been in excess of 100,000 gold crowns.
The Top quality gucci silver jewelry industry, as many other industries, has changed because of the internet, today you can compare prices and even compare the jewelry online without doing the foot work and walking from shop to shop, fighting off the sales people as you go. The fact that the information is available on the internet can make the life of a unique jewelry seeker a little easier, once you understand what you have in mind will involve and you have a good idea of how much you want to spend, you can start looking for young freelances that offer their services on the internet.
For those who have the means and can spend a little more, it is always a good idea to look at as many jewelry design shops as you can, once you find someone that does things you like and you think that this person could interpret what you have in mind in a good way, walk in and start talking, many of the designers will be happy to try new directions and you just may find that the Top quality Gucci earrings designer will be more interested in you that you in the jewelry.
