Jewelry was one of the most significant and characteristic products of Phoenician and Car
thaginian arts and crafts. Most of them are made out of gold, although there are also examples in silver, bronze, semiprecious stone, and multicolored glass. The beads for necklaces were made out of precious metal and out of semiprecious stone and multic
olored glass, with pendants of gold and silver in a variety of shapes. Bracelets were often made of thin plates of metal held together by hinges with an internal pin. Rings were of various different shapes, some of them set with scarabs or semiprecious s
tones engraved with typical Egyptian and Phoenician motifs, such as hawks, griffins, and palmettes.\par
