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shows traces of the eyes and nose, while on another found in the Late
Minoan tomb of Muliana in East Crete,1 the nose alone is indicated. In
these cases we may fairly trace a reminiscence of the pre-existent usage of
a mere gold bandage like the present. In Minoan Cyprus we find only
mouth-plates.

It is a symptom of the comparative wealth of Crete in the Early

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Fig. 70. Copper Weapons and Instruments from Mochlos (E. M. II) (^c).

Minoan Age that gold objects are more plentifully forthcoming from
these tombs than silver, so frequent in contemporary Cycladic deposits.
A cup and finger-ring of the latter metal were, however, found at Mochlos
and two silver daggers, to be mentioned below, occurred at Kumasa.

Triangular copper daggers now appear, often with an incurved base
(Fig. 70, II. 45)- As pointed out above, this can hardly be the most
primitive type, and we must presuppose the existence of copper daggers
of the simpler triangular form in the preceding E. M. I Period. Among

1 Xanthudides, 'E0. 'Apx-, 1904, p. 49, Fig. 12.

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