422 Rovina
animals, five-pointed stars, “occhi di dado,” or monograms (Fig. 16.5). Simple
or open bands decorated with serpent heads at their ends are also known. The
same motif also adorns some bracelets that date to between the fourth and
the sixth or seventh centuries, and which, along with the open-ended “testa di
clava” type, were as widespread in Sardinia as in the rest of the Mediterranean
basin (Fig. 16.6).12 The necklaces are formed from glass-paste beads, and have
12 Domenica Lissia and Daniela Rovina, “Sepolture tardo romane e altomedievali nella
Sardegna nord occidentale e central,” in Le sepolture in Sardegna dal IV al VII secolo
(Oristano, 1990), pp. 85–87, fig. 10.
Figure 16.4 Golden rings with the monogram “Aster” and with an amethyst (5th–6th c.).
Figure 16.5 Bronze and silver rings with flat mount or conical trunk and incisions
(6th–7th c.).