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EARLY MINOAN II
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Italy, near Volterra.1 It is worth noting as a further indication of primitive Similar
commerce that in the same cave burial were found conical tin buttons 2 of blade^
a form widely disseminated through the Celtic and Iberian West. j™™
It is not so clear whether the curious two-pronged spearhead of copper xwo-
(Fig. 72) found in the Sepulchral Deposit of H. Onuphrios 3 belongs to this §p°J2_
or the succeeding Period. Its associations, if we may judge from later heads,
parallels, are also of a very suggestive kind. It recalls the two-pointed spears
of Lycaonia, the two-pronged bronze implements of the Carian mercenaries
found at Tell-Nebesheh, and the symbolic forked weapons of Babylonia.4
A very characteristic type of copper implement, of repeated occurrence in Copper
the Mochlos Tombs, consists of a blade with expanding edge with a tang at 9^ers
the upper end fitting into the handle (Fig. 70, XIX. 29, I. /). In two cases Twee-
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remains of ivory handles were found.5 This refinement, and the fact that
they generally occurred in company with depilatory or other tweezers (see
Fig. 70), makes it probable that these cutters ' played some part in the
intricacies of the Minoan toilet'." Of the tweezers, both forms occur in con-
temporary Early Cycladic tombs.7 It is noteworthy that the thick variety
is identical with an early dynastic Egyptian type. Egyptian fashions
would thus seem to have affected the Minoan toilet from an early Period.
At a later date we shall see bronze mirrors introduced from the same source.
A form of perforated adze-axe of copper, well represented at the Adze-
beginning of the Middle Minoan Age (see below, p. 194, Fig. 141, c), can
also be traced back to this Period.
In Tomb II at Mochlos, in a purely E. M. II medium, was found Votive
a small votive axe of copper (Fig. 70, II. 46), and two others of lead. Axes^6
As in the case of the ' Horns of Consecration' from the E. M. I votive
deposit described above,8 we have here an interesting testimony to the
antiquity of Minoan cult objects. The place of the Double Axe in Cretan
religion is fully illustrated by Late Minoan and Mycenaean remains.
Reste vorgriechischer Bevolkerung auf den Cycla- ment to Cretan Pictographs, &c), p. 136,
den (Ath. Mitth., 1886), p. 16, Beilage I, 6. It Fig. 139.
was found in a cist-grave in Amorgos with 4 Petrie, Ta/u's, Pt. II, PI. iii, and pp. 20,
advanced Early Cycladic objects, including a 21. They were found in tombs dating from
pyxis with very fine spiraliform decoration. the 8th to the 5th century B.C.
1 In the ossuary grotto of Monte Bradoni. 5 In Tomb I at Mochlos ; op. cit., Pig 44,
Colini, Bull, di Paletn., xxv (1899), PI. IV. 3, I. /. Another specimen, with remains of an
and pp. 301, 302. ivory handle, occurred at H. Nikolaos.
2 Cf. Peet, The Stone and Bronze Ages in 6 Seager, ib., p. 2r.
Italy, p. 196. These buttons have two con- 7 'E<£. 'Ap^., 1898, PI. XII, 4 (Amorgos);
verging perforations below for attachment. 1899, PI. X, 40, 41, 42 (Syros).
3 See my H. Onuphrios Deposit (Supple- 8 Seep. 57, Fig. 16, c.
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Italy, near Volterra.1 It is worth noting as a further indication of primitive Similar
commerce that in the same cave burial were found conical tin buttons 2 of blade^
a form widely disseminated through the Celtic and Iberian West. j™™
It is not so clear whether the curious two-pronged spearhead of copper xwo-
(Fig. 72) found in the Sepulchral Deposit of H. Onuphrios 3 belongs to this §p°J2_
or the succeeding Period. Its associations, if we may judge from later heads,
parallels, are also of a very suggestive kind. It recalls the two-pointed spears
of Lycaonia, the two-pronged bronze implements of the Carian mercenaries
found at Tell-Nebesheh, and the symbolic forked weapons of Babylonia.4
A very characteristic type of copper implement, of repeated occurrence in Copper
the Mochlos Tombs, consists of a blade with expanding edge with a tang at 9^ers
the upper end fitting into the handle (Fig. 70, XIX. 29, I. /). In two cases Twee-
, zcrs.
remains of ivory handles were found.5 This refinement, and the fact that
they generally occurred in company with depilatory or other tweezers (see
Fig. 70), makes it probable that these cutters ' played some part in the
intricacies of the Minoan toilet'." Of the tweezers, both forms occur in con-
temporary Early Cycladic tombs.7 It is noteworthy that the thick variety
is identical with an early dynastic Egyptian type. Egyptian fashions
would thus seem to have affected the Minoan toilet from an early Period.
At a later date we shall see bronze mirrors introduced from the same source.
A form of perforated adze-axe of copper, well represented at the Adze-
beginning of the Middle Minoan Age (see below, p. 194, Fig. 141, c), can
also be traced back to this Period.
In Tomb II at Mochlos, in a purely E. M. II medium, was found Votive
a small votive axe of copper (Fig. 70, II. 46), and two others of lead. Axes^6
As in the case of the ' Horns of Consecration' from the E. M. I votive
deposit described above,8 we have here an interesting testimony to the
antiquity of Minoan cult objects. The place of the Double Axe in Cretan
religion is fully illustrated by Late Minoan and Mycenaean remains.
Reste vorgriechischer Bevolkerung auf den Cycla- ment to Cretan Pictographs, &c), p. 136,
den (Ath. Mitth., 1886), p. 16, Beilage I, 6. It Fig. 139.
was found in a cist-grave in Amorgos with 4 Petrie, Ta/u's, Pt. II, PI. iii, and pp. 20,
advanced Early Cycladic objects, including a 21. They were found in tombs dating from
pyxis with very fine spiraliform decoration. the 8th to the 5th century B.C.
1 In the ossuary grotto of Monte Bradoni. 5 In Tomb I at Mochlos ; op. cit., Pig 44,
Colini, Bull, di Paletn., xxv (1899), PI. IV. 3, I. /. Another specimen, with remains of an
and pp. 301, 302. ivory handle, occurred at H. Nikolaos.
2 Cf. Peet, The Stone and Bronze Ages in 6 Seager, ib., p. 2r.
Italy, p. 196. These buttons have two con- 7 'E<£. 'Ap^., 1898, PI. XII, 4 (Amorgos);
verging perforations below for attachment. 1899, PI. X, 40, 41, 42 (Syros).
3 See my H. Onuphrios Deposit (Supple- 8 Seep. 57, Fig. 16, c.