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 JEWELRY. 387 in principle it is identical with the little contrivance known as a safety-pin. Bangles going two or three times round the arms (Figs. 79, 83, 89, 129), and bracelets (Figs. 45, 103, 141) at the wrists may be seen on many Cypriot statues. It would seem from the monu- ments that bracelets were worn chiefly by women. They never occur on male statues, and the two on which the name of Eteandros, King of Paphos, appears, were possibly votive, and not for actual use. This idea acquires additional probability from the fact that these bracelets are solid. Bracelets made for wear were hollow, their walls being strengthened against accidental shocks by a filling of sulphur. FIG. 320. Gold bracelet. From Cesnola. 1 Somejbracelets consist of a simple ring of massive gold, without ornament ; they weigh from two to three hundred grammes. 2 As a rule, however, the break in the circle is adorned by two heads of animals firmly attached to their respective ends of the cylinder and facing each other. In a bracelet from Curium (Fig. 320) these are lions' heads, excellently modelled. A similar motive is found on a pair of hollow gold bracelets, in marvellous condition, which may be instanced as perhaps the finest jewels of purely oriental style yet discovered in Phoenicia. In this case the heads are those of 1 CESNOLA, Cyprus, p. 311, C/>rus, p. 311.