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ANTHROPOLOGICAL PUB. UNIV. OP PA. MUSEUM, VOL. III.
mained (Fig. 41). It must have been a votive or symbolical
axe for both the axe-head itself and the wooden handle are too
slender for practical use. Perhaps it had prophylactic value;
we know that single axe-heads shared the sacred character of the
more common type of double axe. The bronze hairpin of Fig.
42 was found in the same pithos as the carnelian seal of Fig. 45, d.
Fig. 40.—Clay Seals and Steatite Fig. 41.—Bronze Axe-head Found Inside
Beads. Scale 2:3. Burial-jar. Scale 1:2.
That bronze was highly enough prized to be used for jewelry is
shown not only by bronze beads but also by three bronze rings.
Two of these have plain bronze bezels (Fig. 43, a); like the
Early Minoan gold ring they are of very small dimensions (diam.
1 cm.) so that they must have been worn either on the little
finger of a child's hand or on the last joint of an adult's little
Fig. 42.—Bronze Pin Found Inside Burial-jar. Scale 1:2.
finger; or perhaps they were suspended from a necklace. The
third bronze ring (Fig. 43, b) had a crystal bezel, which had
fallen from its setting and had worked its way several centimetres
through the soil. The decoration is very simple and consists of
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PUB. UNIV. OP PA. MUSEUM, VOL. III.
mained (Fig. 41). It must have been a votive or symbolical
axe for both the axe-head itself and the wooden handle are too
slender for practical use. Perhaps it had prophylactic value;
we know that single axe-heads shared the sacred character of the
more common type of double axe. The bronze hairpin of Fig.
42 was found in the same pithos as the carnelian seal of Fig. 45, d.
Fig. 40.—Clay Seals and Steatite Fig. 41.—Bronze Axe-head Found Inside
Beads. Scale 2:3. Burial-jar. Scale 1:2.
That bronze was highly enough prized to be used for jewelry is
shown not only by bronze beads but also by three bronze rings.
Two of these have plain bronze bezels (Fig. 43, a); like the
Early Minoan gold ring they are of very small dimensions (diam.
1 cm.) so that they must have been worn either on the little
finger of a child's hand or on the last joint of an adult's little
Fig. 42.—Bronze Pin Found Inside Burial-jar. Scale 1:2.
finger; or perhaps they were suspended from a necklace. The
third bronze ring (Fig. 43, b) had a crystal bezel, which had
fallen from its setting and had worked its way several centimetres
through the soil. The decoration is very simple and consists of