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Hollow inside. It was fixed on a support. Repoussé in a meticulous way, particularly the eyes, the eyebrows, the beard and the hair. The ears and eyes are disproportionate, the forehead strongly wrinkled, the nose puffed up, the nostrils wide, the beard and the hair short; Adam's apple is prominent. A heavy blow was applied to the upper part of the head and completely smashed it. Below the neck, broad and strong, probably, the top of a garment pierced with nine holes for fastening the gold casing to the bracket.
Gold bracelet, in one piece, without traces of soldering. The decoration consists of an oblique flower bed rounded at its ends and bordered with small pearls. This flower bed is repeated thirty times around the bracelet. The upper and lower borders are formed by a line of beads between two grooves. The decoration is carried out on repoussé; on the reverse side, the pearls forming the pattern have the appearance of small squares, while on the other side they appear rounded.
Three armillae united, formed of a polished and thin gold leaf which cover a full circle, of a different material. Due to some bits, this inner circle appears to be made of glass paste. Two of these armilles are identical.
The head is oblong, and at the origin of the pin, after a slight depression below the head, there is a small bulge.
Rolled gold band, without traces of welding, covered with reliefs obtained by repoussé. There are eight medallions separated from each other, from axis to axis, by a space of 4.8 cm. They alternately contain a lion's muzzle and a beardless human head, so that there are four men's heads and four lion's muzzles. The first ones are placed in a round frame surrounded by a rounded scalloping; the frames of the seconds are edged with a pointed scalloping and each point, at its base, is accosted by two pearls. Above and below each of the medallions is placed a little winged Cupidon sitting on the edge of a basket. These cupids are arranged in such a way that the bases of the baskets rest on the lower border and on the upper border of the band. Thus, among these cupids, some are placed in the direction of the heads of the medallions, others with their backs to them. The interval between each medallion is filled by two arches open in opposite directions and approaching by their summits; they take the form of two back-to-back amazon shields (peltae); they are edged with line pearls. Under each arch is a bust, either bearded or hairless. The flattening state in which the headband is located does not make it possible to recognize the heads, with the exception of one which is bearded and has very visible horns: Jupiter - Ammon. Small rabbits occupy the free spaces between the arches and the medallions. The borders consist of a twist held between two sticks. The pearls are made with the perloir. Several details were made by a chisel, in particular the hair and beards as well as the hair of the rabbits.
Jet (or black glass paste) bracelet, perfectly round in shape; it is cut into a twist. Two small gold ribbons, 19 mm wide, are applied to two opposite points of the bracelet, wrap it tightly in the shape of twist and form two symmetrical flat necklaces. This peculiarity would make believe that the object is in two pieces and that the gold leaves were applied to join them.
Black material bracelet, very dry and slightly cracked. The material may appear of horn but; also, could have been made of jet. This bracelet is made up of two parts of unequal sizes, the ends of which are adorned with gold frames bearing the hinges, clip and buckle of the clasp also in gold. It is oval in shape.
Decorated with horizontal grooves and each pierced with two parallel holes in the direction of the grooves. Three of these plates are 2.2 cm long; the other three are only 2 cm.
Gold bracelet (armilla), composed of two parts. It is adorned with several oblique bands formed by diamonds whose hatching imitates braided work. The decoration was obtained by repoussé and before the gold band received the final shape. The parts of the sheet not needed for the bracelet have been folded back inside and form a kind of lining. The smaller part has an attachment clip and a hinge; on the large part the hinge has disappeared, but the hook opposite the clip exists.
Part of a gold bracelet bearing a rather complicated decoration, executed in repoussé, with a strong relief. The base consists of a regular seedling of rosettes with four elongated leaves. These rosettes are arranged so that their leaves form the frames of small diamond-shaped compartments, simulating three horizontal bands. In the middle band, these compartments are filled with seven rather roughly rendered hairless heads. The eyebrows and eyes have been drawn back; the mouths are made alternately with a stroke of a burin and two strokes of the pearl. The other diamonds are occupied in turn by baskets of fruit, rabbits, bunches of grapes and birds. These subjects, placed in pairs above and below the heads, face each other in opposite directions, so as to always have the lower edge or the upper edge of the bracelet as a base. Rabbits and bunches of grapes are repeated twice. Eighteen palm leaves complete the decoration. The heart of each rosette located on the top of the compartment lines returns to the field of the heads with the help of four small palmettes indicated in engraving, which form like the petals of an open flower of which the heart of the rosette would be the center. On the edges, the metal is slightly folded so as to form a border decorated with a regularly repeated line. At each end, there is a small opening in which a hinge pin fits.
Corrected, updated and coin data entered by C. Gazdac (Nov. 2021).
