The metal objects from the Petras cemetery range in type and style and date from late EM I to MM IIB. Other copper/bronze objects include a chisel, awls, tweezers, knife blades, fish hooks, pendants, bracelets, rivets, beads, and strips. At least one of these small tools has part of the ivory handle still attached. Several of the copper or bronze objects are miniature tools such as cosmetic scrapers that were equipped with holes in order to be worn as pendants. Gold pierced beads probably once belonged to larger bracelets and/or necklaces one of them is shaped like a flower and contains remnants of lapis lazuli. A gold “Tree of Life” pendant was probably once the centerpiece of a necklace. The gold pieces consist of small delicate bosses, sheets, and strips that probably once surrounded wooden buttons and were attached to other organic materials. The metal objects from this Early to Middle Minoan cemetery, which is located on the eastern side of the Siteia Bay in eastern Crete, belong to various categories and types of metals.
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