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'THE RING OF NESTOR,' ETC.

by the last Palace period at Knossos (L.M. II.). The form of the chariot
on No. 12, with its single body, is also of special importance as representative
of the earlier class which in the later Palace at Knossos had already been
superseded by the ' dual' type seen in Fig. 37 above, which henceforward
seems to have become universal in the Minoan and Mycenaean world. The
detailed resemblance of the framework of the body in the case of the Thisbe
intaglio with that of the chariot on the Vapheio gem (Fig. 36), may be thought
to supply a definite indication that it belongs to the same cultural phase,
which we know from the associated pottery to have been L.M. I. b. This
conclusion would involve a date round about 1500 B.C. for the whole of the
later group of the Thisbe jewels, a result which squares well "with the other
evidence, positive and negative, at our disposal.

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Fig. 40.—Funereal Balance; thin Gold Plate, with Embossed Butterflies

on Scales. Third Shaft Gbave, Mycenae (as kestored by Dr. G. Karo).

See below, pp. 59, 60.