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332 HORNS OF WILD-GOATS ON 'ARMOURY' TABLETS
Here there is no question of the artificial knotting of the hair such as w
see in the late Palatial Age of Knossos and Tiryns. So far from any
Tablets
relating
to manu-
facture of
horn-
bows.
Fig. 812. Galloping Horses in Low Relief on Sword-blade from Fifth Shaft
Grave, Mycenae.
association with harness there are no indications of the horses being even
broken in. Rather the artist has given us a glimpse of herds of half-wild
colts coursing in full freedom over the Argolid prairie.
Tablets from ' Armoury' Deposit relating to Manufacture of Horn-bows
and Stores of Arrows.
The series of tablets described above, relating to the framework of
chariots, fallen into the basements of the 'Armoury', had already marked it
as a scene of extensive manufacture in this branch of military equipment.
Single tablets there found enumerate So or 90 chariot frames, while one
refers to 478 wheels. Another hoard of clay tablets and sealings found
near these shows that arms such as javelins, bows and arrows, were also
here manufactured wholesale.
Amongst these, a group from which selections are given in Fig. Slo,
repeats a pictographic figure consisting of two curves with smaller excre-
scences which can present no difficulty to those familiar with presentations
of Cretan wild-goats on contemporary intaglio types. These objects are, in
fact, their long curving horns with the characteristic protuberances. We
are also warranted in concluding that in connexion with the 'Armoury
tablets they refer to the raw material for horn-bows.
A head of the species (Capra aegagrus) to which the horns belong,
bringing out the characteristic protuberances, is given in Fig. 814. On the
Aegean side it is at present only found in Crete and Anti-Melos, though
Here there is no question of the artificial knotting of the hair such as w
see in the late Palatial Age of Knossos and Tiryns. So far from any
Tablets
relating
to manu-
facture of
horn-
bows.
Fig. 812. Galloping Horses in Low Relief on Sword-blade from Fifth Shaft
Grave, Mycenae.
association with harness there are no indications of the horses being even
broken in. Rather the artist has given us a glimpse of herds of half-wild
colts coursing in full freedom over the Argolid prairie.
Tablets from ' Armoury' Deposit relating to Manufacture of Horn-bows
and Stores of Arrows.
The series of tablets described above, relating to the framework of
chariots, fallen into the basements of the 'Armoury', had already marked it
as a scene of extensive manufacture in this branch of military equipment.
Single tablets there found enumerate So or 90 chariot frames, while one
refers to 478 wheels. Another hoard of clay tablets and sealings found
near these shows that arms such as javelins, bows and arrows, were also
here manufactured wholesale.
Amongst these, a group from which selections are given in Fig. Slo,
repeats a pictographic figure consisting of two curves with smaller excre-
scences which can present no difficulty to those familiar with presentations
of Cretan wild-goats on contemporary intaglio types. These objects are, in
fact, their long curving horns with the characteristic protuberances. We
are also warranted in concluding that in connexion with the 'Armoury
tablets they refer to the raw material for horn-bows.
A head of the species (Capra aegagrus) to which the horns belong,
bringing out the characteristic protuberances, is given in Fig. 814. On the
Aegean side it is at present only found in Crete and Anti-Melos, though