Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

SPECIMENS OF 'SWORD TABLETS

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Fig. 838. Specimens from Deposit of ' Sword Tablets'.

loop at the base of the handle and over half of the oval opening in the centre
—to show that this had formed part of the attachment to a sword of
the 'cruciform' type. As in the case of the faience example from the
Mycenae tomb (Fig. 83(5), there was a sunken circle, which had doubtless
been filled by a small disk of gold plate, imitative of a nail head.