Such rattles were perhaps in pairs to a rod and used as a kind of sistrum. Very similar is a gold “rattle” (or possibly reel) from Sardis, Tomb 213 (5.3 cm. in diameter and 3.2 cm high), with nineteen concentric circles of wire on one end, and containing twenty-seven pellets (average diameter 2.2 mm, combined weight 2.4 gr; No. 135). The tomb yielded seventeen other items — two bronze mirrors, a silver omphalos phiale and silver bowl, a chalcedony seal in a gold mount, two gold rings, necklace of gold and carnelian, pottery ‘ampulla’, terracotta open lamp, and seven stone alabastra. von Bothmer cites four other pairs — in Izmir, from Iasos; in Paris, collection de Clercq, from Cyprus, and two from Ialysos, Rhodes. The method of construction is virtually identical to that used for a pair of gold ear reels in the British Museum (GR 1872.6-4.845-6), of the late 5th century BC, which also have concentric rings on the die-formed faces. The earrings from the Tomb of the Carian Princess at Halicarnassos are structurally dissimilar; but have the same concentric rings on their faces” (Özgen and Öztürk 1996).