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Metal. 427 the rampart. Hiding-places for storing objects of value could be easily contrived, and as easily masked with a square brick of clay. The most magnificent article in this collection is a diadem of purest gold (Fig. 506), formed by a number of small chains, which in the middle are about the depth of the forehead, but are considerably longer at the sides, where they hung down , Fig. 508.— Portrnil of Madame Schliemaiiti. in front of the ears, and fell about the shoulders. The side bands consist of seven chains, having fifty rings each, and a spear-shaped leaf, grooved lengthwise, after every four rings. These chains are joined together by four cross ones. The long chains terminate in pendants which in rudeness approach the coarsest idols {Figs. 322-324), The short chains, fifty in number, have twenty-one rings apiece, and pendentives, like the longer