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Metal. 429 from 8700 small rings, pierced prisms, discs, buttons, and tiny bars. Bracelets would have encircled the arms, could these have been visible in the picture. Five of these bracelets are shaped like that of Fig. 509 ; the sixth is simply a wire welded into a circle, terminating in a knob or hook. To this Treasure also belonged hair-pins, a pair of elegant ear-rings and gold studs, the one with a hollow stem into which was inserted the solid and pointed one of the other (see Figs. 512, i, 3, 6). I feel no hesitation in accepting the pieces which constitute this treasure as coeval with the burnt city. Under a seeming gorgeousness, we have quite a rudimentary simplicity of forms. The goldsmith has more nimble fingers than the potter ; but his inventive faculty is no whit better. Such is no longer the case for other ornaments found in small quantities, between the south gate and the domestic abode of the chieftain, whereon are beheld two decorative forms, the rosette and spiral, to be met with in every instance of the metal-work of this art. The objects consist of ear-rings (Fig. 510), with pendants that have been recognized as idols ; but the bar that holds the chain is adorned