The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . 99, 100. Crowns of gold inlaid with stones loi. Granulated gold work (all Xllth dynasty) JEWELLERY seen on a case in a zigzag pattern, and on two pen-dants. Another example is apattern of small rhombson the bezel of a ring. The granules are 5 x 5 ineach rhomb, and eight rhombs on the bezel, or fortygranules in about six-tenths of an inch ; allowingfor spaces, the granules must be an eightieth ofan inch wide. This kind of work is found also lateron in Egypt, but it may not be native ; in Etruria itwas the national type of jewellery about three thou-sand ye
The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . 99, 100. Crowns of gold inlaid with stones loi. Granulated gold work (all Xllth dynasty) JEWELLERY seen on a case in a zigzag pattern, and on two pen-dants. Another example is apattern of small rhombson the bezel of a ring. The granules are 5 x 5 ineach rhomb, and eight rhombs on the bezel, or fortygranules in about six-tenths of an inch ; allowingfor spaces, the granules must be an eightieth ofan inch wide. This kind of work is found also lateron in Egypt, but it may not be native ; in Etruria itwas the national type of jewellery about three thou-sand years after this. The mode of fastening the necklaces was bygrooved pieces. One of the gold cowries, or lionsheads, or ties which formed the necklace, was madein two halves with dovetail groove andtongue fitting into each other along thewhole length of the piece. The tongue ran upagainst a butt end when the halves coincided. When we reach the XVIIIth dynasty we see inthejewellery of Queen Aah-hotep (1570 ) muchthe same system of wor
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