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 JEWELRY. 389 The composition is simpler but the execution quite as careful in another bracelet from Curium (Fig. 325), in which pairs of lotus flowers are alternated with pairs of small golden balls. The points FlG. 322. Egyptian bracelet. Gold. Louvre. of junction between the flowers are hidden by minute daisy-like rosettes. A trinket of a more common kind is to be recognized in the flat band of gold with no ornament but small golden beads and circles (Fig. 326). FIG. 323. Bracelet. New York Museum. Except this thing last mentioned, all the jewelry from Syria or Cyprus is happy in invention and most skilful in workmanship A few curious bracelets have also been found in the graveyarc