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EXPLORATIONS IN MOCHLOS
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dog is interesting as it represents a canine type which still exists in
Crete today. In any Cretan village one can see dozens of crop-
eared dogs of the same peculiar long-legged and emaciated type
which served the Minoan artist as his model for this handle some
4000 years ago. The ground work of incisions, together with the
pierced suspension holes, shows the influence of the incised sub-
neolithic ware which was just dying out when this tomb was built.
No fragment of any vase to which this cover could have belonged
came to light.
Florae 5. Stone Cover from Tomb I. Scale 1:1
I. j (fig. 4 and pl. I). Bowl of grey and white marble with
bridge spout and three horizontal handles (height 7.5 cm., diam-
eter 17.5 cm.). This bowl is one of the largest found at Mochlos
and is complete except for a small piece of the rim.
I. k (fig. 44). Short triangular dagger blade (length 9.2 cm.).
This dagger is probably copper.1
I. I (fig. 44). Small cutter with remains of ivory handle (length
3 cm.). These cutters, which are probably of copper, were often
»If we accept Sig. Mosso's analyses of Early Minoan weapons, it would appear that they
are of almost pure copper and that bronze, if known, was rarely used in the E. M. period
(Dawn Med. Civ., pp. 105-110). The Mochlos weapons and toilet articles have not been
analysed, but I imagine that if analyses are made, it will be found that no objects are of true
bronze before the M. M. I period. See p. 106, note 1.
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dog is interesting as it represents a canine type which still exists in
Crete today. In any Cretan village one can see dozens of crop-
eared dogs of the same peculiar long-legged and emaciated type
which served the Minoan artist as his model for this handle some
4000 years ago. The ground work of incisions, together with the
pierced suspension holes, shows the influence of the incised sub-
neolithic ware which was just dying out when this tomb was built.
No fragment of any vase to which this cover could have belonged
came to light.
Florae 5. Stone Cover from Tomb I. Scale 1:1
I. j (fig. 4 and pl. I). Bowl of grey and white marble with
bridge spout and three horizontal handles (height 7.5 cm., diam-
eter 17.5 cm.). This bowl is one of the largest found at Mochlos
and is complete except for a small piece of the rim.
I. k (fig. 44). Short triangular dagger blade (length 9.2 cm.).
This dagger is probably copper.1
I. I (fig. 44). Small cutter with remains of ivory handle (length
3 cm.). These cutters, which are probably of copper, were often
»If we accept Sig. Mosso's analyses of Early Minoan weapons, it would appear that they
are of almost pure copper and that bronze, if known, was rarely used in the E. M. period
(Dawn Med. Civ., pp. 105-110). The Mochlos weapons and toilet articles have not been
analysed, but I imagine that if analyses are made, it will be found that no objects are of true
bronze before the M. M. I period. See p. 106, note 1.