They comprise hairpins supporting statuettes of Venus, zone-buckles, agraffes for fastening the peplum, rings and bracelets set with cameos, and caskets ornamented at the four corners with little Ionic columns.

The old patterns, however, were still in request in remote provincial places, and village goldsmiths adhered "indifferent well" to the antique traditions of their craft.

Their city brethren had meanwhile no skill to do aught but make clumsy copies of Greek and Roman originals.
In this rapid sketch of the industrial arts there are many lacunae.

When referring to examples, I have perforce limited myself to such as are contained in the best-known collections.

How many more might not be discovered if one had leisure to visit provincial museums, and trace what the hazard of sales may have dispersed through private collections! The variety of small monuments due to the industry of ancient Egypt is infinite, and a methodical study of those monuments has yet to be made.