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Strap chain

A type of broad chain made by interlocking side-by-side several lengths of loop-in-loop chains. Such chains were popular in Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman jewelry.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson