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jewellery; but also by the material of the amber, which, in this group, displays acompletely uniform honey-toned colour. The two heads also belong to this group.Here, the eyes can also be compared, as they are decorated with the sameconcentric circles as are found on the Triangles and fl at Cylinders.Reconstruction and Signifi canceAncient sources can shed little light on the reconstruction of the decoration ofthe statue. Homer (Odyssee 18, 295 f.) mentions two forms of neck decoration:Hormos (strands of beads divided into rows) and Isthmion (a band around theneck). For the Archaic period, two compositional schemes have been extracted:the principle of the accentuated central element, with continuous rows (extendingto the sides); or the organization of elements all having the same form. Beadsand pendants were, according to their size and form, combined into visuallyappropriate unities 9 .The beads and the dividers belong to single-strand neckbands or to multistrandnecklaces. The material, the shape and the colour points to their specialmeaning.The pendants of differing sizes, which also display differing types of bore-holes,could in the same manner belong to neckbands and necklaces.Their shapes, which resemble aryballoi; and the heads, which in many casesare carved in a multi-foliate manner and which resemble poppy, pomegranate orsimilar multi-seed fruits, invoke an association with ‘fertility.’The triangle plays an important role not only as an isolated form, but also as aninherent construction principle of many objects. Even today, jewellery pieces orjewellery ensembles from many cultures are built upon this basic form.The z-formed objects cannot be interpreted until we know their exactdefi nition 10 .9 E. Bielefeld, in: C. F. Matz–H.-G. Buchholz (Ed) Archaeologia Homerica 1, 1968, chapter‚Schmuck’.10 They perhaps fi nd formal analogies with the small, bird-formed faience- or glass-beads (socalled ‘Fritteperlen’) from Uruk, which found broad dissemination from the 2nd millenniumonwards.17