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 386 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. Phoenician dress did not demand a number of brooches and fibulae, like those used by the Greeks ; but something of the kind must have been required to keep in place both those veils which we see on. so many steles and statuettes (Vol. I. Figs. 20, 193 ; Vol. II. Figs. 57, 58), and the mantle which was so generally worn in FIG. 317. Pendant for necklace. New York Museum. FIG 318. Bronze fibula from Cameiros. British Museum. Cyprus. A considerable number of bronze fibulae have been recovered from the Sardinian tombs. Several are decorated with geometrical designs ; one is surmounted by a horse like that of the Carthaginian coins. 1 Similar things have been found at Cameiros ; FIG. 319. Golden fibula. New York Museum. in one of them the pin transfixes four glass globes near its attach- ment, a detail that points to a Phoenician rather than to a Grecian origin. Analogy would lead us to assign to the same workmen some curious fibulae on which a small bird is perched (Fig. 318). A golden fibula from Kition is of much simpler shape (Fig. 319) ; 1 Bullettino archeologico Sardo, vol. v. p. 33.