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small pendants of metal or hard stone, such as amethyst.13 Glass paste, like
metal and bone, was also used for hairpins.
Earrings are the most interesting and varied of the women’s jewelry; they
range from simple bronze, silver, or less commonly gold loops, onto which a
small sphere of the same metal or glass paste could be inserted as an anchor,
to more costly and flamboyant types, with large loops of diameters of up to
10 cm. Conspicuous among these are two rare examples in gold, one from
Siligo (Sassari) (Fig. 16.7), the other from Dolianova (Cagliari), in the form of a
pelta with respectively drop and bell-shaped pendants, both comparable with
more refined examples from North Africa preserved at the British Museum in
13 Salvi, “Cagliari: San Saturnino,” figs 154–158.
Figure 16.6 Bronze “testa di clava” type bracelets (6th–7th c.).
Figure 16.7
Golden pelta-form earrings from Siligo (Sassari)
(7th–8th c.).