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Axe of
Syrian
type from
Vapheio
Tomb.
418 SYRIAN AXE HELD BY HUNTER ON PALESTINE BOWL
embossed silver bowl from Palestrina, dating from round about 700 is c tl
Nimrodof Carthaginian travellers' tales wields an axe of this tradition 1
form in his attack on the gorilla-like pair (Fig. 34(j).1
In the Vapheio Tomb,2 moreover—in the grave cist itself
associated with the
""ESS*
and
*a^M
Fig. 346
/S
w
gold cups and other
precious relics—an
actual specimen of a
bronze axe of this
form came to light,
reproduced in Fig.
347. This so far
differs from any
known Syrian ex-
ample in being pro-
vided with three
separate loops to
enfold the haft in
place of any kind of
continuous socket.
It may therefore be of local fabric,
variety.
Its appearance in the Tomb is of great interest, since we may fairly
recognize in it the actual weapon of the Minoan prince—also exercising
sacerdotal functions—to whom must also probably be attributed the
three seal-stones exhibiting such figures that were found together with it.
In one case (Fig. 341), the religious character of the gaberdined personage
is fully brought out by the sacral monster that he leads. On another Vapheio
bead-seal he stands alone holding an axe of this Syrian form (Fig. 343 c).
The third gem of this class found in that Tomb, a sardonyx lentoid given
Scene on Silver Bowl from Palestrina :
attacking great apes with a syrian axe.
Hunter
ind must be classed as a Minoan
1 See Clermont Ganneau's brilliant interpre-
tation of the scenes on this bowl in Iinggerie
pMnirienM, i, p. 38, and Plate opp. p. 156,
Section VIII (also Journal Asiatique, 1877)
from which Pig. 346 above is excerpted. In
Helbig {Bull, dell'Inst, &x., v, 117-31, and
Aim. deWInst. di Cory. Arch., 1876, pp. 54,
55) the form of the weapon is not clearly
given, while in P. and C., Histoire de I'Arl, iii
(Phenicie-Chypre), the object is described,
club '■
n the
was
For
see his
Perijllus (in Geogr. Gr. Minores, i, >3' l*'\6
" Tsountas, '&4>. 'APX., 1889, pp. «55' '■»■'
and PI. X, 1. Its breadth (horizontally)
14-5 cm and its height the same.
p. 176 (cf. p. 759, Fig. 543) as a
The 'gorilla skins' were hung up "'
Temple at Carthage ; perhaps the axe
also taken from a temple reliquary
Hanno's account of the animal:
Syrian
type from
Vapheio
Tomb.
418 SYRIAN AXE HELD BY HUNTER ON PALESTINE BOWL
embossed silver bowl from Palestrina, dating from round about 700 is c tl
Nimrodof Carthaginian travellers' tales wields an axe of this tradition 1
form in his attack on the gorilla-like pair (Fig. 34(j).1
In the Vapheio Tomb,2 moreover—in the grave cist itself
associated with the
""ESS*
and
*a^M
Fig. 346
/S
w
gold cups and other
precious relics—an
actual specimen of a
bronze axe of this
form came to light,
reproduced in Fig.
347. This so far
differs from any
known Syrian ex-
ample in being pro-
vided with three
separate loops to
enfold the haft in
place of any kind of
continuous socket.
It may therefore be of local fabric,
variety.
Its appearance in the Tomb is of great interest, since we may fairly
recognize in it the actual weapon of the Minoan prince—also exercising
sacerdotal functions—to whom must also probably be attributed the
three seal-stones exhibiting such figures that were found together with it.
In one case (Fig. 341), the religious character of the gaberdined personage
is fully brought out by the sacral monster that he leads. On another Vapheio
bead-seal he stands alone holding an axe of this Syrian form (Fig. 343 c).
The third gem of this class found in that Tomb, a sardonyx lentoid given
Scene on Silver Bowl from Palestrina :
attacking great apes with a syrian axe.
Hunter
ind must be classed as a Minoan
1 See Clermont Ganneau's brilliant interpre-
tation of the scenes on this bowl in Iinggerie
pMnirienM, i, p. 38, and Plate opp. p. 156,
Section VIII (also Journal Asiatique, 1877)
from which Pig. 346 above is excerpted. In
Helbig {Bull, dell'Inst, &x., v, 117-31, and
Aim. deWInst. di Cory. Arch., 1876, pp. 54,
55) the form of the weapon is not clearly
given, while in P. and C., Histoire de I'Arl, iii
(Phenicie-Chypre), the object is described,
club '■
n the
was
For
see his
Perijllus (in Geogr. Gr. Minores, i, >3' l*'\6
" Tsountas, '&4>. 'APX., 1889, pp. «55' '■»■'
and PI. X, 1. Its breadth (horizontally)
14-5 cm and its height the same.
p. 176 (cf. p. 759, Fig. 543) as a
The 'gorilla skins' were hung up "'
Temple at Carthage ; perhaps the axe
also taken from a temple reliquary
Hanno's account of the animal: