Two bracelets Two bracelets 2.68 Diam. Silver, solid hoop, hammered and engraved decoration. Nea Michaniona, Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum, M 8102 E ach bracelet consists of a hoop of circular section that bends and forms a circumference. Its ends, which have finials in the form of stylised snakes' heads with engraved details, overlap.
B racelets with snakes' heads at the ends are the most common type in the ancient Greek world.
It made its first appearance in the Geometric period and survived throughout the whole of antiquity. Similar bracelets have been found in cemeteries at Olynthos, Sindos and elsewhere. Vokotopoulou 1990, p. 107, no. Despini 1996, p. 43.