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BOARS' TUSKS ON HELMETS
'mmediately succeeding the fall of the Palace—of a series of such plates
md perforated for attachment,1 answering in their form to those from
r-i r^ *~____„ „<- T\/I\r««.,~„ ~f ...L:_L i.___
cut an
the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae, of which two
typical specimens, one bored, the other imbored, are
o-iven in Fig. 8(50. A characteristic example of one
of these Late Minoan helmets from Mycenae2 is
shown in Fig. 801.
From the abundant perforated sections of boars'
tusks, found in the Mycenae chamber tombs recently
published by him, Professor Wace, indeed, using
felt for the model, has ingeniously applied the pro-
cess so as to reproduce the original effect of such a
helmet-' (See Fig. 862.) FlG. 86o „,*. Typical
Boar-hunting itself, as we see from the en- Sections of BoarsTusks,
craved dagger-blade of M. M. II date, was early *s applied to Helmets
° . , . ,». r, , , , , . (Fourth Shaft Grave.
practised in Minoan Crete, and the tusks as trophies Mycenae).
of the chase would have been naturally used there
for decorating, and at same time arming the head-piece. But it looks as
if on the Island the quarry there pursued, with highly perfected weapons,
had by Late Minoan times become rarer than in Mainland Greece. On
that side, indeed, Late Minoan illustrations of boar-hunting scenes are
frequent, including the Tiryns fresco, and ' pig-sticking' episodes on seal
types. But on a later ivory relief for inlaying from the West Palace
Section at Knossos, otherwise recalling that shown in Fig. 861, circles
indicative of applied metal disks are substituted in horizontal bands for
the boars' teeth so clearly represented on the other example.
In truth the marshy thickets of many parts of Mainland Greece afford
a better habitat for the wild boar than could ever have been found in Crete.
In the Island the animal seems to have been long extinct, while in
Northern Greece he still affords sport. The Mainland Minoan branch had
1 A. E., I'reh. Tombs of Knossos, i, p. 67,
F'g. 55 «■ The deposit is dated by a stirrup
vase (lb., Fig. 73) showing a foliated band
very closely dependent on those of the ' Palace
Style' example, Pt. I, p. 275, Figs. 208, 209,
above.
' National Museum, Athens, No. 274S,
S"c!< <t- "t., p. I20, Fig. 37, and Karo
^hachtgrdber, Text, p. 2I2,Fig. 94. A more
degenerate version of the same type was found
in the tholos tomb at Spata (B. Haussoullier,
Cat. iks objets decoumrts a Spata (Bull, de
Con: hell., ii (1S78), PI. XVIII, 2, &c.) and a
very similar relief occurred at Enkomi {3.if.
Exams, in Cyprus, p. 9, and PI. ii, No. 1340).
s Chamber Tombs at Mycenae (Archaeologia,
vol. Ixxxiii, 1932), PL XXXVIII, and cf.
pp. 212, 213-
'mmediately succeeding the fall of the Palace—of a series of such plates
md perforated for attachment,1 answering in their form to those from
r-i r^ *~____„ „<- T\/I\r««.,~„ ~f ...L:_L i.___
cut an
the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae, of which two
typical specimens, one bored, the other imbored, are
o-iven in Fig. 8(50. A characteristic example of one
of these Late Minoan helmets from Mycenae2 is
shown in Fig. 801.
From the abundant perforated sections of boars'
tusks, found in the Mycenae chamber tombs recently
published by him, Professor Wace, indeed, using
felt for the model, has ingeniously applied the pro-
cess so as to reproduce the original effect of such a
helmet-' (See Fig. 862.) FlG. 86o „,*. Typical
Boar-hunting itself, as we see from the en- Sections of BoarsTusks,
craved dagger-blade of M. M. II date, was early *s applied to Helmets
° . , . ,». r, , , , , . (Fourth Shaft Grave.
practised in Minoan Crete, and the tusks as trophies Mycenae).
of the chase would have been naturally used there
for decorating, and at same time arming the head-piece. But it looks as
if on the Island the quarry there pursued, with highly perfected weapons,
had by Late Minoan times become rarer than in Mainland Greece. On
that side, indeed, Late Minoan illustrations of boar-hunting scenes are
frequent, including the Tiryns fresco, and ' pig-sticking' episodes on seal
types. But on a later ivory relief for inlaying from the West Palace
Section at Knossos, otherwise recalling that shown in Fig. 861, circles
indicative of applied metal disks are substituted in horizontal bands for
the boars' teeth so clearly represented on the other example.
In truth the marshy thickets of many parts of Mainland Greece afford
a better habitat for the wild boar than could ever have been found in Crete.
In the Island the animal seems to have been long extinct, while in
Northern Greece he still affords sport. The Mainland Minoan branch had
1 A. E., I'reh. Tombs of Knossos, i, p. 67,
F'g. 55 «■ The deposit is dated by a stirrup
vase (lb., Fig. 73) showing a foliated band
very closely dependent on those of the ' Palace
Style' example, Pt. I, p. 275, Figs. 208, 209,
above.
' National Museum, Athens, No. 274S,
S"c!< <t- "t., p. I20, Fig. 37, and Karo
^hachtgrdber, Text, p. 2I2,Fig. 94. A more
degenerate version of the same type was found
in the tholos tomb at Spata (B. Haussoullier,
Cat. iks objets decoumrts a Spata (Bull, de
Con: hell., ii (1S78), PI. XVIII, 2, &c.) and a
very similar relief occurred at Enkomi {3.if.
Exams, in Cyprus, p. 9, and PI. ii, No. 1340).
s Chamber Tombs at Mycenae (Archaeologia,
vol. Ixxxiii, 1932), PL XXXVIII, and cf.
pp. 212, 213-