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CORSLETS ON TABLETS OF 'KNIGHTS' EQUIPMENT 805
Fig. 783 a, b. Sections of Tablets
showing ' Ingot ' Sign substituted for
Cuirass.
tin, with inlaid bands of gold and
kyanos, which King Kinyras, according
to the Iliad, sent to Agamemnon when
about to sail for Troy.1 In this case
we are directed to an orientalizing
source as represented by Cyprus rather
than to the Minoan home-lands.
As to the material of the Pan of
' corslets ' on the ' Chariot tablets
a sidelight may be gained from
full
Knight's'
^ equip-
curious detail observable
several
ment.
b
Fig. 784. a, End of Normal 'Chariot
Tablet ': /;, Back of same Tablet with
'Ingot' Sign inserted.
//. xi, 19 seqq. There were 10 bands or
stripes (otfioi) of ' black' kyanos, 12 of gold
and 20 of tin, from which Helbig concludes
that the gold and kyanos bands were inlaid
in a tin sheet, the outer margin being gold.
class of clay documents represents
warrants for the supply of certain
objects—in this case a full ' knight's'
equipment, chariot and horses, with
their fodder, and, for himself, a breast-
plate, Sometimes, apparently in place
of this an 'ingot' sign is inserted
after the chariot. Not only has the
breast-plate been in certain instances
erased, but on two examples the ' in-
got' sign has been actually sub-
stituted for the original corslet, itself
traceable beneath (Figs. 783, «and<5).
In other words, the right to receive Bronze
the ready-made article was commuted ^°°'n as
for a bronze talent. In some cases, equiva
, • 1 j lent-
again, we see the cuirass omitted and
an ingot set in its place, or on the
reverse side of the tablet as origi-
nally inscribed (Fig. 784, b). It' is
reasonable to suppose that the amount
of bronze in the ingot (nearly 30
He would divide the whole into 21 bands in
front and the same behind {Horn. Epos (1S87
ed.), pp. 3S2, 3S3). The point to be noted is
that in this case we must assume strips of inlay
and not separate plates or' ribs' of metal.
Fig. 783 a, b. Sections of Tablets
showing ' Ingot ' Sign substituted for
Cuirass.
tin, with inlaid bands of gold and
kyanos, which King Kinyras, according
to the Iliad, sent to Agamemnon when
about to sail for Troy.1 In this case
we are directed to an orientalizing
source as represented by Cyprus rather
than to the Minoan home-lands.
As to the material of the Pan of
' corslets ' on the ' Chariot tablets
a sidelight may be gained from
full
Knight's'
^ equip-
curious detail observable
several
ment.
b
Fig. 784. a, End of Normal 'Chariot
Tablet ': /;, Back of same Tablet with
'Ingot' Sign inserted.
//. xi, 19 seqq. There were 10 bands or
stripes (otfioi) of ' black' kyanos, 12 of gold
and 20 of tin, from which Helbig concludes
that the gold and kyanos bands were inlaid
in a tin sheet, the outer margin being gold.
class of clay documents represents
warrants for the supply of certain
objects—in this case a full ' knight's'
equipment, chariot and horses, with
their fodder, and, for himself, a breast-
plate, Sometimes, apparently in place
of this an 'ingot' sign is inserted
after the chariot. Not only has the
breast-plate been in certain instances
erased, but on two examples the ' in-
got' sign has been actually sub-
stituted for the original corslet, itself
traceable beneath (Figs. 783, «and<5).
In other words, the right to receive Bronze
the ready-made article was commuted ^°°'n as
for a bronze talent. In some cases, equiva
, • 1 j lent-
again, we see the cuirass omitted and
an ingot set in its place, or on the
reverse side of the tablet as origi-
nally inscribed (Fig. 784, b). It' is
reasonable to suppose that the amount
of bronze in the ingot (nearly 30
He would divide the whole into 21 bands in
front and the same behind {Horn. Epos (1S87
ed.), pp. 3S2, 3S3). The point to be noted is
that in this case we must assume strips of inlay
and not separate plates or' ribs' of metal.