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Cf. I. Antonova, V. Tolstikov and M. Treister with D. Easton, The Gold of Troy: searching for Homer's Fabled City, London, 1966 particularly pp. 48-52, nos. 13-16 and p. 136, no. 55. An almost identical earrings to the above can be found in the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany. Cf. also, pendants in A. Pasinili, Istanbul Archaeological Museums, Turkey, 1989, p. 80, inv. no. 676A-B. For a full discussion of the type, cf. K. R. Maxwell-Hyslop, Western Asiatic Jewellery, circa 3000-612 B.C., London, 1971, p. 48ff, and p. 60ff., fig. 32, pls. 39-44; also, R. Higgins, Greek and Roman Jewellery, 2nd Edition, California, 1980, p. 47ff' amd G. F. Bass n Epedition, 8, 1966 and American Journal of Archaeology, 74, 1970, p. 335ff., pls. 85-86 where he discusses a hoard of jewellery from the Troad containing similar basket earrings, now in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.