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 430 Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. by three rosettes ; spirals and rosettes also form the decoration of a bracelet (Fig. 511), and four spirals set in pairs that of a gold ornament (Fig. 512, 5). From Mycenae have come count- less round discs of gold-leaf. Troy, however, has furnished but Fill. 511. — Gold bracelel. Seven-eighths of ocluat i three similar examples (Fig. 513). The same analogies are observable in a pair of charming hair-pins (Fig. 512, 2, 4). The design of one out of the two, though skilful, is perhaps somewhat heavy ; it is composed of four rows of double spirals, with side volutes, and six tiny jugs atop a rectangular plate. Finally, the processes of the Mycenian metal-worker are recog- nizable in an eagle formed of two small plates, held tc^ether by gold rivets (Fig. 514). The surface is decorated with incised lines traced with the point. The hole in the middle of the body