Tsuntas, Chrestos: The Mycenaean age: a study of the monuments and culture of pre-homeric Greece (London, 1897)

INDEX

417

Wheels, of gold, (M. iii.) 88;

of chariot, 92.
Wheler, 374.

Whorls, bearing linear characters, (Crete)
278;

see also Buttons.
Wide, at Aphidnae, 9, 386.
Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, 333 n., 382.
Wilkinson, 319 n.
Winckler, 50 n.

Wolf's head, as hieroglyphic symbol, 273.
Wolters, on beehive-tombs in Kephalle-
nia. 10;

at Volo, 132;

on marble idols, 296 n., 302 n.
Women, on hair-pin, 173, 178 ;

on ivory plaque, 180, 189 ;

on mirror handle, 179, 187-8;

on plaster plaque, 170, 173, 299;

on Siege-scene, 212;

on signet, 170, 171, 304-5;

on vase, 386;

apartments of, (T.) xix., xx., 49, (M.) 60,
65, (Troy) 252;

dress, 169-190 ;

Hebrew, 189-90 ;

skeletons, 87, 89, 372;

see also Idols.
Wood-carving, 77 n., 221.
Wooden, beams in shaft-graves, 84 n.,
94;

in brick walls, 50;
in roof, 54 ;

bolt, for gate, (T.) 20-1;

boxes, 77;

cornice, xxvii.;

doors, 53 ;

floors, (T.) 48, (M.) 58;

jambs, (M.) 60, 67;

knife-handles, 204;

pillars, (T.) 45, 48,53, (M.) 56-7, (The-
ra)237;

sword-hilt, 199;

threshold, 52.

Woolen, apron, 161;

ehlaina, 161, 163, 189.
Worsaae, 265.

Worship, of animals, 300-2, 315 ;
of dead, 97, 148-50, 295, 310-13, 335,

363 n., 364;
in open air, 308-9 ;
scenes of, 295, 298-9, 304;
see also Altar, Divinities, Temple.
Writing on Cretan seal-stones, 271-8,

292;
on Egyptian, 269-70, 280;
Mycenaean, 268-9, 279, 284, 316;
and Syrian vessels, 281;
in continuous inscription, 10, 293, 309,

316;
development of, 289-90;
hieroglyphs, 272-7;
linear signs, 277-9, 283, 285, 287 ;

their age, 279, 282 ;

not used at Mycenae, 284, 291, 316,

and not needed, 292 ;
by origin not Greek, 282,

nor Cretan, 286,

but akin to Hittite, 288;
resembles Cypriote, 268, 271, 278-9,

281-3, 287-8,290;

and Hittite writing, 271, 274, 275,

277.

Xenophon, (Anab. iv. 5,25) 246, (vii. 4,4)

198.
Xerxes, at Troy, xx.
Xoana, 296, 309.

Zara, Mt., (M.) 25.
Zeus, 299;

in Crete, 292 n., 309 ;

at Dodona, 309;

at Olympia, 303;

at Troy, xviii.;

Father, 314-15;

Herkeios, 46 n., 63, 310-13.
Zigzag decoration, 119, 383, 388.