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HILT-PLATES OF 'CRUCIFORM' SWORDS
Tomb,
perhaps,
of Knos-
sian war-
rior.
are well established, contained in a chamber tomb of what has been termer!
the 'Third Kilometer Cemetery'.
Among- many interesting relics from this interment—including n0U
jewels in the shape of argonauts
and butterflies, and numerous
vessels of steatite and alabaster
—were two painted ' amphoras'
already illustrated,1 belonging,
down to details of their decora-
tive features, to a Cretan class
that represents the incipient
stage of the ' Palace Style'.
The further occurrence in this
deposit of a hilt-plate in pale
faience (Fig. 836) - belonging to
a sword of the 'cruciform' type
is specially important from its
association with proofs of Knos-
sian connexion.
The pale faience of the hilt-blade itself answers to the Palace fabric,
and, with the deposit, were also found inlays presenting incised marks on
their lower surface, some of which, such as the A, correspond with similar
marks on inlays from the ' Room of the Throne' at Knossos.
This Cretan warrior's grave, for such we may regard it, making its
appearance at Mycenae and at this particular time, is of extraordinary histori-
cal suggestiveness when we recall the cumulative proof to which attention
Fig. 83(i. Faience Hilt-plate of Cruciform
Type found in Chamber Tomb, Mycenae, with
1 Palace Style' Amphora.
1 See R. C. Bosanquet,/.//,5., xxiv (1904),
p. 323. For one see p. 282, Fig. 216, above
(cf. Bosanquet, op. at., PI. XII, restored under
Sir John Marshall's direction), also p. 322.
For the other see p. 321, Fig. 262 above,
and D. Mackenzie, The Pottery of Knossos:
J. H. S., xxiii (1903), p. 102, Fig. 10 (also as
restored under Sir J. Marshall's direction).
Dr. Mackenzie recognized the Knossian fabric
of both vases. They are described above as
transitional L. M. 1 i-L. M. II, and assigned to
their place at the head of the ' Palace Style'
class. Bosanquet, op. at., p. 322, points out
that their clay answers to that of the Palace
Style 'amphoras' of Knossos, and adds that
' it is safe to declare that they had been painted
at Knossos'.
"- Tsountas' statements about this and the
onyx hilt-plates found in Mycenae tombs are
confused and self-contradictory. Prof- Wace,
who has carefully gone into the matter, kindly
informs me that the tomb containing the two
'amphoras' and the fa'fence hilt-plate was
No. 102 of the ' Third Kilometer Cemetery'-
Another faience hilt was found by Tsountas
on the acropolis of Mycenae, but the evidence
of its ceramic associations is still to see •
See, too, Wace, Chamber Tombs of M}'"mc<
P- 3, Fig. 1, and note 2.
HILT-PLATES OF 'CRUCIFORM' SWORDS
Tomb,
perhaps,
of Knos-
sian war-
rior.
are well established, contained in a chamber tomb of what has been termer!
the 'Third Kilometer Cemetery'.
Among- many interesting relics from this interment—including n0U
jewels in the shape of argonauts
and butterflies, and numerous
vessels of steatite and alabaster
—were two painted ' amphoras'
already illustrated,1 belonging,
down to details of their decora-
tive features, to a Cretan class
that represents the incipient
stage of the ' Palace Style'.
The further occurrence in this
deposit of a hilt-plate in pale
faience (Fig. 836) - belonging to
a sword of the 'cruciform' type
is specially important from its
association with proofs of Knos-
sian connexion.
The pale faience of the hilt-blade itself answers to the Palace fabric,
and, with the deposit, were also found inlays presenting incised marks on
their lower surface, some of which, such as the A, correspond with similar
marks on inlays from the ' Room of the Throne' at Knossos.
This Cretan warrior's grave, for such we may regard it, making its
appearance at Mycenae and at this particular time, is of extraordinary histori-
cal suggestiveness when we recall the cumulative proof to which attention
Fig. 83(i. Faience Hilt-plate of Cruciform
Type found in Chamber Tomb, Mycenae, with
1 Palace Style' Amphora.
1 See R. C. Bosanquet,/.//,5., xxiv (1904),
p. 323. For one see p. 282, Fig. 216, above
(cf. Bosanquet, op. at., PI. XII, restored under
Sir John Marshall's direction), also p. 322.
For the other see p. 321, Fig. 262 above,
and D. Mackenzie, The Pottery of Knossos:
J. H. S., xxiii (1903), p. 102, Fig. 10 (also as
restored under Sir J. Marshall's direction).
Dr. Mackenzie recognized the Knossian fabric
of both vases. They are described above as
transitional L. M. 1 i-L. M. II, and assigned to
their place at the head of the ' Palace Style'
class. Bosanquet, op. at., p. 322, points out
that their clay answers to that of the Palace
Style 'amphoras' of Knossos, and adds that
' it is safe to declare that they had been painted
at Knossos'.
"- Tsountas' statements about this and the
onyx hilt-plates found in Mycenae tombs are
confused and self-contradictory. Prof- Wace,
who has carefully gone into the matter, kindly
informs me that the tomb containing the two
'amphoras' and the fa'fence hilt-plate was
No. 102 of the ' Third Kilometer Cemetery'-
Another faience hilt was found by Tsountas
on the acropolis of Mycenae, but the evidence
of its ceramic associations is still to see •
See, too, Wace, Chamber Tombs of M}'"mc<
P- 3, Fig. 1, and note 2.