Evans, Arthur: The shaft graves and bee-hive tombs of Mycenae and their interrelation (London, 1929)

PERCHED ANIMAL FORMS: THEIR N.E. RANGE

and those of Troy II, III—well illustrated by the types found in both areas
surmounted by small vases—afford a link of connexion with a still wider
field of comparisons. To this field indeed we are already led if we may

Fig. 34. Perched Animal Forms on Metal Pins and other Objects of Wide

North-Eastern Range.

trace the Troadic and Aegean silver supply to a Pontic source. Through-
out a large Caucasian region it is a constantly recurring feature that
the extremities and upper edges of metal objects are surmounted by animal
figures, mostly horned, and also by birds. The far-reaching influence
of this early metal Province, which extends to the Trans-Caspian region, is
shown by the diffusion of imitative forms of its characteristic fabrics as far
as Siberia and the Finno-Ugrian North and Eastwards across the Tatar
steppes of Central Asia to beyond the borders of China. It was a Western

by a bird {op. at., 1899, P'- X, 13, and cf. these silver pins was found on the neck of
Karo, Schachtgraber von Mykenae). One of a skeleton, the other on the collar-bone.