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In the Great Treasure at Troy, Dr. Schliemann found 14
battle-axes of nearly pure copper, and shaped like a chisel,
while the graves of the Mycenaean Acropolis The Battle-
yielded only one such battle-axe and fragments of axe
another.1 But in the mound above these graves he found
a couple of two-edged bronze axes with a hole in the middle
for the helve,2 and afterwards, in the sixth stratum at Troy,
he picked up four more exactly like them.3 Axes of this
identical pattern have been found elsewhere, among them
an example procured by Mr. Arthur J. Evans near the
prehistoric site of Goulas, in Crete, and bearing a group
of incised linear characters. Of the two-edged battle-axe
we have two small models in gold plate (detached) and
some 56 more set between the horns of the gold ox-heads
from Grave IV. An agate intaglio from the Heraion shows
the axe in the same position, but suspended from above,
and the same type is represented in the Great Signet
(Fig. 65). We may, therefore, take this
to be the typical Mycenaean battle-axe;
but the Vaphio tomb has given us one
of a very different type (Fig. 94). It
is crescent-shaped, with two large holes
(possibly to lighten the blade), while the
back is cut out in three teeth. Through
these is the hole for the helve which
was guarded by a sort of annular cap

the scratchings about the bottom of the fragment of the Siege Scene have been
taken for sling-stones and throwing-sticks.

1 The Trojan axes are from 6.4 to 12.4 inches long, 1.2 to 3 inches broad,
and .5 to .8 inch thick, the largest weighing about 3 lbs. av. "They are exact
copies of the primitive stone battle-axes, only made longer so as to be more
readily fastened to the wooden shafts and used on both sides."

2 Mycenae, No. 173.
8 Ilios, p. 60G.