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Salaminia (Cyprus) : the history, treasures, & antiquities of Salamis in the island of Cyprus (1882)

Cesnola, Alexander Palma di, 1837-, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London : Trübner and Co. · leaf 85

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, which mayhave been applied to ear-rings as well as to necklaces,appear (see Plate i, fig. 34), where amethysts are set inlittle oblong boxes of gold, with triangular groups ofgrape-like disks of dark blue glass suspended from themin their turn, each of which is enclosed in its properframe of… … Fig. 17. Gold and Emerald Glass Necklace. frequency of the materials themselves in the countries towhich I refer. There are a few pearls, most of which areof irregular shapes. Amber, which is so extremely frequentin Eg}^ptian, Assyrian, Greek, Crimean, the more ancientEtrurian, and Roman jewellery,…

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