Figs. 71-77 (Plate II.) are well-marked examples of Etruscan work, in the British Museum. " 71 " Pair of sirens, repoussé, forming a hook and eye fastening. From Chiusi (?). " 72 " Early fibula. Horse and chimaera. (Blacas coll.) " 74 " Medallion-shaped fibula, of fine granulated work, with figures of sirens in relief, and set with dark blue pastes. (Bale coll.) " 73, 75 " Pair of late Etruscan ear-rings. " 76, 77 " Pair of late Etruscan ear-rings, in the florid style. The jewels of the Roman empire are marked by a greater use of large cut stones in combination with the gold, and by larger surfaces of plain and undecorated metal. The adaptation of imperial gold coins to the purposes of the jeweller is also not uncommon. Figs. 78-82 (Plate II.) Late Roman imperial jewelry, in the British Museum. " 78 " Large pendant ear-ring, set with stones and pearls. From Tunis, 4th century. " 79 " Pierced-work pendant, set with a coin of the emperor Philip. " 80 " Ear-ring, roughly set with garnets. " 81 " Bracelet, with a winged cornucopia as central ornament, set with plasmas, and with filigree and leaf work. " 82 " Bracelet, roughly set with pearls and stones. From Tunis, 4th century. With the decay of the Roman empire, and the approach of the barbarian tribes, a new Teutonic style was developed. An important example of this style is the remarkable gold treasure, discovered at Pétrossa in Transylvanian Alps in 1837, and now preserved, as far as it survives, in the museum of Bucharest. A runic inscription shows that it belonged to the Goths. Its style is in part the classical tradition, debased and modified; in part it is a singularly rude and vigorous form of barbaric art. Its chief characteristics are a free use of strongly conventionalized animal forms, such as great bird-shaped fibulae, and an ornamentation consisting of pierced gold work, combined with a free use of stones cut to special shapes, and inlaid either cloisonné-fashion or in a perforated gold plate. This part of the hoard has its affinities in objects found over a wide field from Siberia to Spain. Its rudest and most naturalistic forms occur in the East in uncouth objects from Siberian tombs, whose lineage however has been traced to Persepolis, Assyria and Egypt. In its later and more refined forms the style is known by the name, now somewhat out of favour (except as applied to a limited number of finds), of Merovingian. [Illustration: FIG. 22.] [Illustration: FIG. 23.]