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 J EWELRV. 383 in its mouth a ring through which the hook at the other end of the cable is arranged to pass, the whole arrangement being carried out with that air of graceful ease which is the highest achievement of technical skill. The jewels we have hitherto been describing were worn by the rich. Beside, or rather beneath them, came trinkets of a cheaper kind, made up entirely of those glass beads which only appear here and there in more ambitious orna- ments. The simplest of these glass necklaces are those made up of blue beads, either oval, spherical, or pear-shaped, which have been found in such abundance on the breasts of Egyptian mummies (see the upper part of Plate X). A most interesting example of the taste with which these comparatively common mate- rials were used is to be seen in the necklace from Tharros which occupies the centre of our Plate X. Taken separ- ately, none of its elements are of any value ; neither the bulls' heads nor the masque of Bacchus is in good style, while the beads by which they are separated are careless enough in workmanship ; but the general result is nevertheless charming. A necklace from the same place, and now in the British Museum, is partly composed of metal (Fig. 312). A few of its beads are of gold, and so are the three pendants ; the one in the centre is a woman's head with an Egyptian wig, those on either