 This might have been done in order to avoid the stereotypy of models.Snakes are depicted in Dacian toreutics from the 6th and 5th centuries BC, and also in the later period.Both types of bracelets with snake protomes, those of simple and multiple spirals, show an ancient Thracian tradition from the Hallstatt period (the Geto-Thracian period) of Geto-Dacian art evolution.