It is composed of figures of Christ, angels, prophets and saints, in Byzantine enamel run into gold plates.
Both sexes wore many stamped gold plates sewn upon their clothes in lines or series.
They were supplied with simpler weapons and adornments, but even so their clothes had hundreds of stamped gold plates and strips of various shapes sewn on to them.
A heavier value is shown by the precious metals -- the gold plates from Khorsabad (18) giving 129, and the gold daric coinage (21, 35) of Persia 129.2.
Sphinxes on glass plates have been found in graves at Camirus in Rhodes and on gold plates in Crimean graves.
