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the projection a (?) full moon has been impressed with a punch {compare Fig. 14, Plate VII., vol. xvii., supra).

Fig. 37. A copper crescent pendant, with a projection resemb- ling a conventionalized " fig " hand extending from the inner curve, and a four-petalled flowerlike emblem in the body of the crescent; ■Granada. This object closely resembles the quite common silver amulets (which are, however, almost always, or invariably, of openwork, while this one has been cast with a back), of which a specimen has been illustrated supra, vol. xvii., Plate VII., Fig. 15, and other specimens have been referred to supra, vol. xxiv., p. 64, and the brass amulet shown in Fig. 2, Plate I., vol. xxiv. Con- cerning the four-petalled emblem, occurring on many of the crescents of this type, which I have described elsewhere (vol. xxiv., pp. 64, 65) as seemingly an emblem of the Virgin Mary, a Spanish gentleman suggested to me that it represented the plant called the rose of Jericho, which is regarded as an emblem of the Virgin.

Fig. 38. A gilt silver openwork crescent pendant, of rather an ■unusual form; Seville. The inner curve of the crescent is occupied by a human profile (compare Fig. 13, Plate VII., vol. xvii., supra), whose nose projects slightly at the point where the projections of the other forms of crescentric amulets occur ; in the body of the crescent is the four-petalled flowerlike emblem, with each petal bifurcated. The specimen has a further unusual feature in the meeting of the tips of the horns in such a manner that the external line of the object is approximately a circle.

Fig. A. A silver crescent pendant, with a projection from the inner curve; modern Moroccan (but obtained at Seville). Inscribed with a Hebrew name of God, " Shaddai " (Almighty), and engraved ■with scrolls. Shown for comparison with the Spanish forms.

Fig. B. A silver openwork necklace ornament ; contemporary, from Tripoli. The projection between the horns and the scrolls in the body of the crescent occurs as in many of the Spanish crescentic amulets, while the small square at about the centre of the ornament has the appearance of being derived from, or related to, the four-petalled flowerlike emblem found in the Spanish forms.

Imported Amulets. — The following four specimens are shown as ■examples of amulets which seem to have been introduced recently,