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 384 HISTORY OF ART IN PHCENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. side are lotus flowers, all the rest is of coloured glass. A great many fragmentary necklaces of glass and glazed earthenware have also been taken from the tombs of Cameiros. 1 This latter material was used both by itself and together with glass in the manufacture of cheap jewelry. On the Syrian coast necklaces have been found entirely composed of scarabs and small figurines of Egyptian faience. Some of the scarabs bear hieroglyphs correct enough to be the work of Egypt itself. 2 Necklaces entirely of gold, like those from Curium, seem to have been rare enough ; hardly any have been found in the Sardinian graveyards. A necklace found at Olbia consists, how- ever, of filigree cylinders of very delicate execution.; 3 Another model held, apparently, in great favour by the Phoenician colonists in the island, was that of which we reproduce an example in our Fig. 313. Its character is hybrid ; we recognize an Isis Asiaticised. These objects were most likely amulets. FlG. 313. Gold pendant in the Cagliari Museum. We have already drawn attention to the pendants by which the richness of these Phoenician jewels was enhanced ; they are of various shapes, long mostly for necklaces meant to hang low upon the breast, circular for those which embraced the throat. In Fig. 314 we reproduce one in the shape of a medallion, which formed part of the Curium treasure. Perhaps we should also assign a Phoenician origin to the beautiful brooch or pendant bequeathed to the French National Library by the Due de Luynes (Fig. 315). It is said to have been discovered in the island of Milo. A sapphire forms the centre ; on the disk about it appear 1 We reserve all notice of the fine jewels in gold and electrum discovered by Salzmann for our chapter on archaic Greek art in Rhodes. 2 Thus the scarabs in a necklace brought from Syria by M. de Vogue bear the name of Thothmes III. 8 Bullettino archeologieo Sardo, vol. vii. pp. 116-118.