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Late inscriptions attest jewellery- and clothing-changes for the EphesianArtemis, associated with a festival named ‘Daitis’ 6 , during which the image wascarried to the beach and underwent a ritual washing. Furthermore, inscriptionsmention a ‘Decorator’ (H Kosmitira) whose duty it was to dress the cult image andto apply its jewellery 7 .The beads, scarabs and bronze fi bulae which are also found in other Greeksanctuaries allow the supposition that these objects were not expressly createdfor this image; prominent, however, is the jewellery made of amber, which revealsa great variety of form (Fig. 9).Amber beads have been found in small quantity also in other sanctuaries mostlyof female goddesses 8 , but objects such as these from the Ephesian Artemisionare known from no other sanctuary. Here amber was replaced throughout thecourse of the 7th century B.C. by gold-silver alloy, which also took over the nameof amber, elektron.Already the large number of fi nds (about 600 pieces) indicate that we are dealingwith particular jewellery, which can be seen (interpreted) as ritual appendages fora cult image not only on the basis of its fi ndspot alone. The many amber objectsdisplay not only a great variety of form, but are also extremely well-preserved.Particularly noteworthy are some large beads or, better stated, amber pieces(about 6 x 4 cm) which are polygonally and pyramidally formed. Their big simplebore-hole is so positioned that their width faces can be looked at either (Fig. 1; inFig. 9) horizontally or vertically.Beads of widely differing sizes constitute the largest proportion (about 300pieces). They display a wide variety of forms (Figs. 10–13). They are: conical,fl at-biconical, disc-formed, spherical, elongated double-conical, square-formed orrounded square-formed, cylindrical (undecorated or with grooves, which look likespirals) as well as additional fl at cylindrical.So-called ‘dividers’ are objects with multiple vertical bore-holes. With these,single cords of multi-strand necklaces could be separated so that a good fi t aroundthe neck (or perhaps around the waist) was ensured.6 R. Heberdey, ÖJh 7, 1904, 210-215; U. Muss, Die Bauplastik des archaischen Artemisionsvon Ephesos. Sonderschriften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes, Vol. 25(1994) 46f.7 H. Engelmann, Inschriften und Heiligtum, in: Kosmos op.cit 34ff.8 Mastrocinque op.cit. 86ff.15