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THE AGE OF TRANSITION 101
still show the old tradition in their shape, which is that
of a small tholos or beehive ; the false-necked vase still
survives in them, though in a debased form.1 Elsewhere
in Crete there is fast accumulating evidence of an age
of transition. On Thunder Hill at Kavusi Miss H. A.
Boyd found a short iron sword and bronze brooches in
company with vases transitional between Minoan and
Geometric, and uncremated skeletons.5 In a chamber
tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted
larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great
Mycenaean body shield, although not of the usual figure-
of-eight shape.5 A false-necked vase, however, that
belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in
shape and design, similar to one found at Muliana in
company with two late bronze broadswords, and bronze
brooches like those found on Thunder Hill.' It seems
as if we had here not only in-and-out combinations of
iron and bronze, but a long shield coming down to the
borders of the Geometric Age, although the probability
that the figure that bears it is a god suggests that we
may be dealing with a religious survival. In the Muliana
tomb, too, if we are to believe the " unhesitating de-
scription " of the peasant who was unfortunately before
Dr. Xanthoudides, and upset everything in his search
for treasure, we have evidence of a curiously gradual
passage from burial to cremation.5 Uncremated bones
were found with the bronze swords and brooches and
the false-necked vase on one side of the tomb, while on
the other were found an iron sword and dagger and
cremated bones in a cinerary geometric um, resembling
1 Hogarth in B.S.A. vi. pp. 83, 84, and fig. 26.
3 A.J.A. v. 1901, figs. 2, 3, pp. 128-37.
3 P.T. fig. 107, p. 99 = J.H.S. xxi. fig. 50, p. 174. The
drawing of the shield in the two illustrations differs considerably.
I have assumed that in P.T. to be correct.
* P.T. pp. 102, 112, 131, 132.
s 'E$. '\px- 1904, p. 22 seq.
still show the old tradition in their shape, which is that
of a small tholos or beehive ; the false-necked vase still
survives in them, though in a debased form.1 Elsewhere
in Crete there is fast accumulating evidence of an age
of transition. On Thunder Hill at Kavusi Miss H. A.
Boyd found a short iron sword and bronze brooches in
company with vases transitional between Minoan and
Geometric, and uncremated skeletons.5 In a chamber
tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted
larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great
Mycenaean body shield, although not of the usual figure-
of-eight shape.5 A false-necked vase, however, that
belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in
shape and design, similar to one found at Muliana in
company with two late bronze broadswords, and bronze
brooches like those found on Thunder Hill.' It seems
as if we had here not only in-and-out combinations of
iron and bronze, but a long shield coming down to the
borders of the Geometric Age, although the probability
that the figure that bears it is a god suggests that we
may be dealing with a religious survival. In the Muliana
tomb, too, if we are to believe the " unhesitating de-
scription " of the peasant who was unfortunately before
Dr. Xanthoudides, and upset everything in his search
for treasure, we have evidence of a curiously gradual
passage from burial to cremation.5 Uncremated bones
were found with the bronze swords and brooches and
the false-necked vase on one side of the tomb, while on
the other were found an iron sword and dagger and
cremated bones in a cinerary geometric um, resembling
1 Hogarth in B.S.A. vi. pp. 83, 84, and fig. 26.
3 A.J.A. v. 1901, figs. 2, 3, pp. 128-37.
3 P.T. fig. 107, p. 99 = J.H.S. xxi. fig. 50, p. 174. The
drawing of the shield in the two illustrations differs considerably.
I have assumed that in P.T. to be correct.
* P.T. pp. 102, 112, 131, 132.
s 'E$. '\px- 1904, p. 22 seq.