Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

870 HELMET SET WITH BOARS' TUSKS FROM MYCENAE

evidently much better opportunities of indulging in it than were to be found

lier Helkdic

Fig. 861. Ivory Relief of War-
rior's Head from Mycenae, show-
ing Zones of Helmet and Cheek-
piece FITTED WITH BOARS1 TuSKS.

Fig. 802. Restored
arrangement by pro-
FESSOR Wace of Boars'
Tusks Section from
Chamber Tomb at My-
cenae.

inhabitants had already used the tusks, strung into chains, for necklaces'
or other personal adornments is not surprising, but their claim to have
initiated this use for Minoan helmets must be altogether disallowed.
Where they have been found in connexion with indigenous settlements, as
at Eleusis 2 and at Eutresis 3 in Boeotia, the bored sections both in shape
and perforations absolutely conform to the pattern used for helmets,
such as those described, of very ancient Minoan tradition. We have here,
indeed, examples of incipient intrusion of Minoan fashions among the
representatives of the old race. In view of the facts above stated the
suggestion that the adornment and reinforcement of helmets by the

and Fig. 290, Nos. 6, 7, 8, 10, 13 are identical
with those used for Minoan helmets both in
Crete and at Mycenae, Kakovatos, and other
Mainland sites. They belong (as Prof. Wace
has demonstrated in a practical manner) to .
helmet type with cheek-pieces like Fig- f

1 At Eutresis, see Miss H. Goldman's work
(cited below), p. 220.

" E. Mylonasj rjpotaropiKi)'EAfiucts, pp. 144,
145 and Fig. 119.

3 Hetty Goldman, Excavs. at Eutresis in
Boeotia (Harvard Univ. Press, 1931), p. 220,