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DRESS AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT 183
engraver's tool, but it must have grown quite cheap before
the end of the Mycenaean age. Hence it came to be the
common material for ornaments, collars, necklaces, and the
like. That these were produced here is sufficiently attested
by the very fact that they are copies of the gems. Cheap
as glass beads must have been, it would seem that there
were women who could not afford even these, and so con-
tented themselves with still cheaper ones. Thus in a My-
cenaean chamber-tomb were found 50 sea-shells, 34. of
which had been pierced and strung, evidently to form a
necklace.
Rings and bracelets were common to both sexes. The
bracelet was worn about the wrist or farther up
the arm: on the women in Figs. 66 and 155 it
appears at the elbow. Even anklets seem to have been in
Fig. 76. Gold Bracelet from Grave IV- (size of original)
occasional use. A massive gold bracelet adorned with a
splendid rosette, found in Grave IV., is here reproduced.
The rings, as already remarked, are of various materials,
— gold, bronze, iron, precious stone. Many of
them are too small for any but a child's finger,
and must have served mainly as signets. In pattern they
engraver's tool, but it must have grown quite cheap before
the end of the Mycenaean age. Hence it came to be the
common material for ornaments, collars, necklaces, and the
like. That these were produced here is sufficiently attested
by the very fact that they are copies of the gems. Cheap
as glass beads must have been, it would seem that there
were women who could not afford even these, and so con-
tented themselves with still cheaper ones. Thus in a My-
cenaean chamber-tomb were found 50 sea-shells, 34. of
which had been pierced and strung, evidently to form a
necklace.
Rings and bracelets were common to both sexes. The
bracelet was worn about the wrist or farther up
the arm: on the women in Figs. 66 and 155 it
appears at the elbow. Even anklets seem to have been in
Fig. 76. Gold Bracelet from Grave IV- (size of original)
occasional use. A massive gold bracelet adorned with a
splendid rosette, found in Grave IV., is here reproduced.
The rings, as already remarked, are of various materials,
— gold, bronze, iron, precious stone. Many of
them are too small for any but a child's finger,
and must have served mainly as signets. In pattern they