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THE MYCENAEAN AGE
hair, and in certain features of the face, — more so, in-
deed, in the original than in the copy; so that we are
hardly warranted in drawing any positive conclusion from
them. The chamber-tombs at Mycenae yield the same neg-
ative results ; nothing like an ear-
ring has been found in any of
them. Such ornaments, indeed,
may have been worn by Mycenaean
women, but only by a favored few
and on rare occasions. This is all
the more remarkable, since in the
Orient at the same period earrings
were worn even by the men.
But if the women rarely dis-
played earrings, they certainly wore
collars and necklaces. We could
infer as much from the like cus-
tom of the men, but there is no
lack of monumental evidence to
bear us out. Thus the woman of
Collars and *he iv0ry PIa<lUe (^g-
Necklace 72) wears a collar of
triangular beads, with bracelets of
the same make; and a terra-cotta
shows a triple collar, with double
chain depending from it upon the breast. From neither of
these works can we determine the material of the beads,
but the beads actually found in the tombs are of gold,
amber, gems or glass-paste. The amber beads — whose
material, as shown by chemical analysis, most probably
came from the Baltic — are sometimes as large as a silver
dollar. The beads of stone and glass-paste are of varying
form — round, oval, and so on.
THE MYCENAEAN AGE
hair, and in certain features of the face, — more so, in-
deed, in the original than in the copy; so that we are
hardly warranted in drawing any positive conclusion from
them. The chamber-tombs at Mycenae yield the same neg-
ative results ; nothing like an ear-
ring has been found in any of
them. Such ornaments, indeed,
may have been worn by Mycenaean
women, but only by a favored few
and on rare occasions. This is all
the more remarkable, since in the
Orient at the same period earrings
were worn even by the men.
But if the women rarely dis-
played earrings, they certainly wore
collars and necklaces. We could
infer as much from the like cus-
tom of the men, but there is no
lack of monumental evidence to
bear us out. Thus the woman of
Collars and *he iv0ry PIa<lUe (^g-
Necklace 72) wears a collar of
triangular beads, with bracelets of
the same make; and a terra-cotta
shows a triple collar, with double
chain depending from it upon the breast. From neither of
these works can we determine the material of the beads,
but the beads actually found in the tombs are of gold,
amber, gems or glass-paste. The amber beads — whose
material, as shown by chemical analysis, most probably
came from the Baltic — are sometimes as large as a silver
dollar. The beads of stone and glass-paste are of varying
form — round, oval, and so on.