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234 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
earthen vessels with tin-foil, "with the sole difference that
on their harder material (bone) it was necessary to engrave
the design before applying the gold. If we assume, then,
that the Mycenaeans made their first essays with work like
the lacustrine pottery, we must indeed admit a vast advance
from the earthen pot inlaid with tin-foil to the silver cup,
enameled and inlaid with a band of genuine Greek profiles
between two rows of inlaid gold leaves (Fig. 117). But
it is an advance in refinement rather than a change of
direction ; and the interval is hardly wide enough to re-
quire a bridge from Argolis to Egypt to span it.
Another sword clearly akin to the Mycenaean was found
Fig. 117. Inlaid Silver Cup from a Mycenae Chamber-tomb
on the island of Thera, and is now in the Museum at Co-
iniaid sword penhagen. The blade is inlaid on both sides
from Thera ^-^ jj^tle gold axes, set apparently upon some
resinous substance. From its similarity to the Mycenaean
swords, this too might well be regarded as a work of My-
cenaean art, particularly as we have no definite information
about the spot where it was found or the objects found
with it. But for all that, it is apparently a genuine island,
rather than Mycenaean, product, inasmuch as among the
finds at Mycenae and Tiryns there is no trace of an axe
earthen vessels with tin-foil, "with the sole difference that
on their harder material (bone) it was necessary to engrave
the design before applying the gold. If we assume, then,
that the Mycenaeans made their first essays with work like
the lacustrine pottery, we must indeed admit a vast advance
from the earthen pot inlaid with tin-foil to the silver cup,
enameled and inlaid with a band of genuine Greek profiles
between two rows of inlaid gold leaves (Fig. 117). But
it is an advance in refinement rather than a change of
direction ; and the interval is hardly wide enough to re-
quire a bridge from Argolis to Egypt to span it.
Another sword clearly akin to the Mycenaean was found
Fig. 117. Inlaid Silver Cup from a Mycenae Chamber-tomb
on the island of Thera, and is now in the Museum at Co-
iniaid sword penhagen. The blade is inlaid on both sides
from Thera ^-^ jj^tle gold axes, set apparently upon some
resinous substance. From its similarity to the Mycenaean
swords, this too might well be regarded as a work of My-
cenaean art, particularly as we have no definite information
about the spot where it was found or the objects found
with it. But for all that, it is apparently a genuine island,
rather than Mycenaean, product, inasmuch as among the
finds at Mycenae and Tiryns there is no trace of an axe