The Palace of Knossos: Provisional Report for the Year 1903 (in: The Annual of the British School at Athens, 9.1902/1903, S. 1-153) (London, 1903)

Knossos Excavations, 1903.

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Two bone relics are of considerable interest. They represent the
notched end and plume of an arrow, the incised decoration of the shaft

Fig. 39.—Plats or Ivory Handle ok Instrument (f).

showing a red inlay (Fig. 40). Both specimens are smooth below, with rivet-
holes, which point to the former existence of a middle plate of metal. The

Fig. 40.—Arrow Plume of Bone, with Red Inlay (]).

lower ends of these objects are sawn off, and had been probably applied to a
metal shaft, fixed on to or forming one piece with the metal plate between