Jewellery can also be symbolic of bunch membership, as in the case of the Christian crucifix or Jewish Star of David, or of status, as in the case of chains of office, or the Western habitude of married people wearing a wedding ring.

Extensive and meticulously maintained scroll pertaining to the contract and manufacture of jewellery have also been unearthed Diamond Jewelry throughout Mesopotamian archaeological sites. One chronicle in the Mari kinglike archives, for example, gives the composition of legion items of jewellery: