Adornments in ancient Thrace were chiefly insignia of wealth and power and served religious and other ceremonial functions; their decorative purpose was secondary. Their form and decoration can indicate their origin and date and reveal larger cultural dynamics unfolding in Thrace. Classical and Early Hellenistic jewelry fashion was influenced by the Greek style; the Early Iron Age repertoire was entirely replaced. From this background emerges the Thracian jewelry school, which produced representative adornments for the Thracian elite. Thrace later became part of the Hellenistic jewelry koine; local models of Greek types appear. Ateliers in the coastal regions created magnificent adornments for the Greek colonists as well as adornments and “jewelry style” horse harnesses for the Thracian elite. After the mid‐third century BCE, central European and Celtic influence prevails, particularly in the interior. The first Roman imports appear in the second and first century BCE.