. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Tig. 225. is the image of a winged goddess, from the head of which,amongst pieces of grass, rises the slender stalk of a rose. Fournaked male genii and two draped female ones, floating over theflowers, point towards the goddess, who stands on a pedestalbearing this inscription:— KPEIOnNIOS HOHKH TON ETHANOIM. Earrings (evwria, eWofiia, eAt/rra/pes) were, in Greece, onlyworn by women; while amongst the Persians, Lydians, and ORNAMENTS. 181 Babylonians they were common to both, sexes. Their form variesfrom simple rings to elaborate, tasteful pendants. Fig. 22
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Tig. 225. is the image of a winged goddess, from the head of which,amongst pieces of grass, rises the slender stalk of a rose. Fournaked male genii and two draped female ones, floating over theflowers, point towards the goddess, who stands on a pedestalbearing this inscription:— KPEIOnNIOS HOHKH TON ETHANOIM. Earrings (evwria, eWofiia, eAt/rra/pes) were, in Greece, onlyworn by women; while amongst the Persians, Lydians, and ORNAMENTS. 181 Babylonians they were common to both, sexes. Their form variesfrom simple rings to elaborate, tasteful pendants. Fig. 226, b,shows a pendant, found in Ithaka, in the shape of a siren, holdinga double pipe in her hand. Fig. 226, /, shows an earring trimmedwith garnets, found in the same place, with the head of a lionat one end, and that of a snake at the other. Fig. 226, c, is an. Fig. 226. ornament, found near Pantikapaion, in the form of two clubshanging on an earring of Syrian garnet. Fig. 226, d, shows apendant, found in the same neighbourhood, resembling those nowin use. Numerous other illustrations are supplied by vase-paintings, coins, and gems ; while works of sculpture reproduceornaments only in rare cases. Necklaces (izepilepaia^ opfioi), bracelets for the upper andunder arm (-^-eXia o<jms), and rings worn round the leg, abovethe ankle {iracav^pvGai TrepiaKehlces, Trepiatpvpia), are frequently metwith on monuments.* Neck-ornaments either consisted of ringsjoined into a chain, or of one single massive ring, spiral in form,and made of bronze or precious metals, the latter being worn * A statue of Aphrodite in the Glyptothek of Munich wears a broad ring roundthe upper arm. 182 GEMS. principally by barbarous nations.* Fig. 226, e, shows a aTpenro^irepiavyevios of this kind, undoubtedly of Greek workmanship,with figures of couching lions at each end. It
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