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 INDUSTRIAL ARTS. 287 Cybele." l It is matter for surprise that excavations offering no difficulty should not yet have been made. In that Lydia whose wealth was the admiration of her neigh- bours, the art of working metals cannot but have kept pace with FIG. 200. Fragment of vase from Bin Tepe. Third of actual size. British Museum. ceramic industry. Within a region where gold and silver were found in abundance, trinkets of the precious metals must have been made and worn. As samples of Lydian jewellery should be FIGS. 201, 202. Fragments of vases from Bin Tepe. Actual si/e. mentioned the remarkably fine personal ornaments in pure gold, now in the Louvre (Figs. 203-208). They were found in the vicinity of Aidin (ancient Tralles), e.g. on the boundary line between Lydia and Caria. 2 Professor Ramsay, in one of his many visits to the 1 SAYCE, Notes from Journeys in the Troad and Lydia, p. 86 (Hell. Studies, 1880). 8 A. DUMONT, " Note sur des bijoux trouve'sen Lydie " (Bulletin de correspondance hellenique, 1879, pp. 129, 130). The trinkets in question are fully described in the