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M. M. I : METAL-WORK, SEALS, FOREIGN RELATIONS 195
Hagia Triada1 were obtained a series of bronze daggers (Fig. 142) among
which the tanged types with the slightly flanged square shoulders are of
exceptional interest as the direct progenitors of the square-shouldered
swords, and their ' horned ' successors belonging to the early part of the Late
Minoan and Mycenaean Age. These weapons were found together with fine
polychrome vases, ranging from late M. M. I to about the middle of M. M. II.
It seems probable therefore that the flanged type, being the more advanced,
should be referred to M. M. II a.
It appears from Professor Mosso's analysis 2 of some daggers of types
similar to the above that they in some cases contained over 9 per cent, of
Dagger
Proto-
types
(M. M. I)
of Later
Minoan
Bronze
Swords.
Tin Alloy
in M. M. I
Daggers.
Fig. 142 a-d, Bronze Daggers from Annexe of Smaller Tholos at Hagia
Triada (M. M. I) (f c).
tin. On the other hand, an analysis made by him of part of a blade found
with ' Kamares Vases' from the first Palace at Phaestos showed 89-5 copper
and 3-146 tin.
It is characteristic of this Period and of the progress in methodical Hiero-
organization that, in place of the more or less advanced pictography already fcnptCof
attained by the close of the preceding Age we are now confronted with Class A-
a regular hieroglyphic system of writing. Class A of this, in which the signs
are still of a somewhat rude and archaic form, is the special product of
M. M. I. The materials are chiefly found on steatite bead-seals, of the same
three- or four-sided shape as those presenting the antecedent class of picto-
1 R. Paribeni, Mon. Ant., xiv, PL 44, Figs. p. 718, Fig. 541, a, t>, below.
6-11, cf. pp. 704, 705. Compare the remark- 2 Le origini delta civilta ?nediterra?iea,
able engraved dagger-blade from Lasethi, p. 234 seqq.
O 2
Hagia Triada1 were obtained a series of bronze daggers (Fig. 142) among
which the tanged types with the slightly flanged square shoulders are of
exceptional interest as the direct progenitors of the square-shouldered
swords, and their ' horned ' successors belonging to the early part of the Late
Minoan and Mycenaean Age. These weapons were found together with fine
polychrome vases, ranging from late M. M. I to about the middle of M. M. II.
It seems probable therefore that the flanged type, being the more advanced,
should be referred to M. M. II a.
It appears from Professor Mosso's analysis 2 of some daggers of types
similar to the above that they in some cases contained over 9 per cent, of
Dagger
Proto-
types
(M. M. I)
of Later
Minoan
Bronze
Swords.
Tin Alloy
in M. M. I
Daggers.
Fig. 142 a-d, Bronze Daggers from Annexe of Smaller Tholos at Hagia
Triada (M. M. I) (f c).
tin. On the other hand, an analysis made by him of part of a blade found
with ' Kamares Vases' from the first Palace at Phaestos showed 89-5 copper
and 3-146 tin.
It is characteristic of this Period and of the progress in methodical Hiero-
organization that, in place of the more or less advanced pictography already fcnptCof
attained by the close of the preceding Age we are now confronted with Class A-
a regular hieroglyphic system of writing. Class A of this, in which the signs
are still of a somewhat rude and archaic form, is the special product of
M. M. I. The materials are chiefly found on steatite bead-seals, of the same
three- or four-sided shape as those presenting the antecedent class of picto-
1 R. Paribeni, Mon. Ant., xiv, PL 44, Figs. p. 718, Fig. 541, a, t>, below.
6-11, cf. pp. 704, 705. Compare the remark- 2 Le origini delta civilta ?nediterra?iea,
able engraved dagger-blade from Lasethi, p. 234 seqq.
O 2