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652 The duplication of the double axe
space two millimeters in depth1 and might be regarded as a cross
between a gong and a bell. The hammer is regularly a hollow-cast
cylinder with spheroidal ends.
L. Pigorini2 has pointed out that contemporary copies of these
axe-gongs were made in terra cotta, and has published examples
from the De Lucca estate at Bologna (fig. 579, c), from Monteveglio
in the same neighbourhood (fig. 579,$), and from Solino near Imola
(fig. 579, a). The Solino gong is decorated on both sides with circles,
formerly filled with bronze studs, some of which are still to be seen
fixed in the clay3.
(f) The duplication of the double axe.
The 'Minoan' axe in religious surroundings exhibits a marked
tendency towards duplication. To begin with, the sacred weapon
is normally not the single but the double axe. Then, the craftsman
or the artist has a way of making either wing of the implement
twofold—witness the small steatite axe from Knossos (fig. 405)4,
or the gold bucrania (fig. 409 c, d)h and the gold ring from Mykenai
(fig. 18)6, the clay sealing from Kato Zakro (fig. 524V, the painted
sarcopJiagus from Hagia Triada (pi. xxvii, a)s. Or he may duplicate
the whole axe, so that we see as objects of veneration a pair of
double axes with twofold blades : the same sarcophagus provides
an illustration (pi. xxvii, b)d. Or again he may duplicate this pair of
double axes with twofold blades, as on a clay sealing found near
the 'Room of the Archives' in the Cnossian palace (fig. 580)™.
1 G. Gozzadini Intorno ad alcuni sepolcri scavati nelP arsenate militare di Bologna
Bologna 1875 p. 6 f. with fig. 15, L. Pigorini loc. cit. p. 65 f.
2 L. Pigorini 'Di un oggetto di bronzo italico della prima eta del ferro e di alcune
sue imitazioni in terra cotta' in the Bullettino di paletnologia italiana pp. 62—76 pi. 3, 1
(=my fig. 579, a), 2 (=my fig. 579, b), 3 ( = my fig. 579, c). Scale £.
3 W. Helbig in the Bull. d. Inst. 1882 p. 83 n. 2, L. Pigorini loc. cit. p. 68 f.
4 Supra p. 535. 6 Supra p. 537. 6 Supra p. 514 ff.
7 Supra p. 623. 8 Supra p. 518. 9 Supra p. 520.
10 Sir A. J. Evans in the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1901 —1902 viii. 103 fig-61 ( = my
fig. 580 : scale f).
Fig. 580.
space two millimeters in depth1 and might be regarded as a cross
between a gong and a bell. The hammer is regularly a hollow-cast
cylinder with spheroidal ends.
L. Pigorini2 has pointed out that contemporary copies of these
axe-gongs were made in terra cotta, and has published examples
from the De Lucca estate at Bologna (fig. 579, c), from Monteveglio
in the same neighbourhood (fig. 579,$), and from Solino near Imola
(fig. 579, a). The Solino gong is decorated on both sides with circles,
formerly filled with bronze studs, some of which are still to be seen
fixed in the clay3.
(f) The duplication of the double axe.
The 'Minoan' axe in religious surroundings exhibits a marked
tendency towards duplication. To begin with, the sacred weapon
is normally not the single but the double axe. Then, the craftsman
or the artist has a way of making either wing of the implement
twofold—witness the small steatite axe from Knossos (fig. 405)4,
or the gold bucrania (fig. 409 c, d)h and the gold ring from Mykenai
(fig. 18)6, the clay sealing from Kato Zakro (fig. 524V, the painted
sarcopJiagus from Hagia Triada (pi. xxvii, a)s. Or he may duplicate
the whole axe, so that we see as objects of veneration a pair of
double axes with twofold blades : the same sarcophagus provides
an illustration (pi. xxvii, b)d. Or again he may duplicate this pair of
double axes with twofold blades, as on a clay sealing found near
the 'Room of the Archives' in the Cnossian palace (fig. 580)™.
1 G. Gozzadini Intorno ad alcuni sepolcri scavati nelP arsenate militare di Bologna
Bologna 1875 p. 6 f. with fig. 15, L. Pigorini loc. cit. p. 65 f.
2 L. Pigorini 'Di un oggetto di bronzo italico della prima eta del ferro e di alcune
sue imitazioni in terra cotta' in the Bullettino di paletnologia italiana pp. 62—76 pi. 3, 1
(=my fig. 579, a), 2 (=my fig. 579, b), 3 ( = my fig. 579, c). Scale £.
3 W. Helbig in the Bull. d. Inst. 1882 p. 83 n. 2, L. Pigorini loc. cit. p. 68 f.
4 Supra p. 535. 6 Supra p. 537. 6 Supra p. 514 ff.
7 Supra p. 623. 8 Supra p. 518. 9 Supra p. 520.
10 Sir A. J. Evans in the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1901 —1902 viii. 103 fig-61 ( = my
fig. 580 : scale f).
Fig. 580.