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IBERIC, BRITANNIC, AND MALTESE CONNEXIONS
The operation of this East Adriatic trade route is traceable in many other
ways. At Dodona, for instance, which traditionally stands in relation to it,
have been discovered Minoan bronze swords representing an outgrowth of
the ' horned' form,1 side by side with a type of perforated axe characteristic
of a large Danubian Province,2 and which in derivative forms can be traced
as far afield as Scandinavia. The evidence of this intercourse is indeed Traces of
still abundant in the ' Sub-Minoan' Age when iron was coming into use, ;nfluence
as is well shown by the diffusion of certain fibula types, and it is a alo"g
noteworthy fact that the characteristic form of the Minoan ring with its besil route.
Fig. 88. Silver Cup, Vapheio.
Fig. 89. Clay Cup, Nienhagen, Saxony.
set at right angles to the hoop penetrated as far as Glasinatz in the Bosnian
interior.3 Of special interest, moreover, in connexion with the more Northern
section of this route along the Elbe Valley is the recent discovery, in an
Early Bronze Age cemetery at Nienhagen in Saxony,4 of a cup (Fig. 89)
which is clearly a clay imitation of the Vapheio type (Fig. 885). A clay
handle of the Vapheio class from Knossos has been already represented c
which bears the mark of its metallic origin in two imitative rivet heads.
The handle of the Nienhagen cup is plain and out of position, but, coupled
with the shape of the vessel, sufficiently indicates its parentage. The
Vapheio type of cup goes back in Crete well into the Third Middle Minoan
1 Karapanos, Dodone et ses ruines, PI. LVII,
I, 2.
2 Op. tit., PI. LIII, 4.
3 For the ring type and Sub-Minoan in-
fluences in Bosnia, &c, see below, p. 197 seqq.
and Fig. 108.
4 Jahresschrifi fiir die Vorgeschichie der
sachsisch-thuringischen Lander, x, PI. X, 5, and
see H. Motefindt, il>., pp. 77, 78. Unfortunately
the exact circumstances of the find are not
certain. The cemetery, however, to which
this cup belonged was of the ' Aunjetitz' class,
so named after the great cemetery south of
Prague (see V. Gordon Childe, Dawn of
European Civilization, p. 191 seqq.).
5 Silver cup from Vapheio tomb; drawn by
Gillie'ron, pere. Height 85 mm., diam. 118 mm.
6 P. of M., i, p. 245 and Fig. 183, b 1 (opp.
p. 242). This specimen probably belongs to
the Early phase of M. M. III.
The operation of this East Adriatic trade route is traceable in many other
ways. At Dodona, for instance, which traditionally stands in relation to it,
have been discovered Minoan bronze swords representing an outgrowth of
the ' horned' form,1 side by side with a type of perforated axe characteristic
of a large Danubian Province,2 and which in derivative forms can be traced
as far afield as Scandinavia. The evidence of this intercourse is indeed Traces of
still abundant in the ' Sub-Minoan' Age when iron was coming into use, ;nfluence
as is well shown by the diffusion of certain fibula types, and it is a alo"g
noteworthy fact that the characteristic form of the Minoan ring with its besil route.
Fig. 88. Silver Cup, Vapheio.
Fig. 89. Clay Cup, Nienhagen, Saxony.
set at right angles to the hoop penetrated as far as Glasinatz in the Bosnian
interior.3 Of special interest, moreover, in connexion with the more Northern
section of this route along the Elbe Valley is the recent discovery, in an
Early Bronze Age cemetery at Nienhagen in Saxony,4 of a cup (Fig. 89)
which is clearly a clay imitation of the Vapheio type (Fig. 885). A clay
handle of the Vapheio class from Knossos has been already represented c
which bears the mark of its metallic origin in two imitative rivet heads.
The handle of the Nienhagen cup is plain and out of position, but, coupled
with the shape of the vessel, sufficiently indicates its parentage. The
Vapheio type of cup goes back in Crete well into the Third Middle Minoan
1 Karapanos, Dodone et ses ruines, PI. LVII,
I, 2.
2 Op. tit., PI. LIII, 4.
3 For the ring type and Sub-Minoan in-
fluences in Bosnia, &c, see below, p. 197 seqq.
and Fig. 108.
4 Jahresschrifi fiir die Vorgeschichie der
sachsisch-thuringischen Lander, x, PI. X, 5, and
see H. Motefindt, il>., pp. 77, 78. Unfortunately
the exact circumstances of the find are not
certain. The cemetery, however, to which
this cup belonged was of the ' Aunjetitz' class,
so named after the great cemetery south of
Prague (see V. Gordon Childe, Dawn of
European Civilization, p. 191 seqq.).
5 Silver cup from Vapheio tomb; drawn by
Gillie'ron, pere. Height 85 mm., diam. 118 mm.
6 P. of M., i, p. 245 and Fig. 183, b 1 (opp.
p. 242). This specimen probably belongs to
the Early phase of M. M. III.