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CLASSIFICATION OF THE BRONZES
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objects which are represented in kind at the Heraenm : Round and diamond-shaped wire, both in
straight pieces and coils, nails, spikes and chisels, large plain disks with edge folded under (ef. No.
1713), and the wishbone type of bowl-handles. 2. Of the later period represented by the graves
of the lower city and other Mycenaean sites, e. g. Tiryns (in part), Vaphio, Menidhi, Salamis, etc.,
the Heraeiun finds are more numerous, and comprise nails with thick flat heads, plain and orna-
mented rings, cylix or bowl handles of wishbone type, a small pitcher, shallow saucers with and
without handles, disks, etc. Many of the straight pins with bead and corrugated heads, as well
as those with spool-heads and inserted bronze or iron pin-shafts (Nos. 352-382), and about
fifty fibulae (Nos. 808-857), together with the open screw-thread bracelet with corrugated ends
(No. 972), belong here. It is also probable that the simplest form of ball spit is to be put here.
"Geometric. To this style belong the horses, except Nos. 14-17 (early naturalistic and transi-
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Fig. 31.—Iron Bars excavated at the Heraeum.
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tional) and No. 18 (archaic), the birds, the deer (Nos. 19,20), the fragments of large tripods, the
straight pins (Nos. 722-807), the fibulae (Nos. 858-881), the ornamental bands (Nos. 1748,1749),
and probably most of the engraved and punched coatings and the engraved spits. Under the influ-
ence of this style stand further the cow's head (No. 23), and the bird's tail (No. 49).
"Archaic. 1. Later and reflex Mycenaean (so-called Oriental) influence: cow's head (No. 25),
lion (No. 29), fibulae (Nos. 883-918). 2. More independent and developed archaism : fragments
of statues (locks of hair), statuettes, horse (No. 18), cows (Nos. 26, 27), mouse (No. 30, frag. No.
31), bird's head (No. 50), mirrors, saucers, sphinx amphora, fragment of rim with lotus and
palmettes, low tripod stand, hand strainer, handle with engraved horses' heads, fragment of chariot
antyx, imitation harness straps, ring-fibulae (Nos. 919-945), lion fibula (No. 946), cut figures
(e. g. dolphin, head and neck of bird). A considerable number of the straight pins also belong-
here.
" The Geometric style, while interposed between the Mycenaean and Archaic styles, is represented
by a smaller number of objects than either, and has left but few traces of its influence on the
later style. As a result of the slight impression made by the Geometric style on the Mycenaean,
the latter, through its later stages, passes either directly or with slight modification into the early
Archaic. Between the two there is, as may be seen, for example, from the various types of straight
pins, no essential change in technique, the difference lying mainly in the introduction of some
elements of ornamentation derived from the Geometric style and some subjects like the griffin
derived from the Orient. An Oriental style does not exist among the bronzes from the
Heraeum."'
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63
objects which are represented in kind at the Heraenm : Round and diamond-shaped wire, both in
straight pieces and coils, nails, spikes and chisels, large plain disks with edge folded under (ef. No.
1713), and the wishbone type of bowl-handles. 2. Of the later period represented by the graves
of the lower city and other Mycenaean sites, e. g. Tiryns (in part), Vaphio, Menidhi, Salamis, etc.,
the Heraeiun finds are more numerous, and comprise nails with thick flat heads, plain and orna-
mented rings, cylix or bowl handles of wishbone type, a small pitcher, shallow saucers with and
without handles, disks, etc. Many of the straight pins with bead and corrugated heads, as well
as those with spool-heads and inserted bronze or iron pin-shafts (Nos. 352-382), and about
fifty fibulae (Nos. 808-857), together with the open screw-thread bracelet with corrugated ends
(No. 972), belong here. It is also probable that the simplest form of ball spit is to be put here.
"Geometric. To this style belong the horses, except Nos. 14-17 (early naturalistic and transi-
rf
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Fig. 31.—Iron Bars excavated at the Heraeum.
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tional) and No. 18 (archaic), the birds, the deer (Nos. 19,20), the fragments of large tripods, the
straight pins (Nos. 722-807), the fibulae (Nos. 858-881), the ornamental bands (Nos. 1748,1749),
and probably most of the engraved and punched coatings and the engraved spits. Under the influ-
ence of this style stand further the cow's head (No. 23), and the bird's tail (No. 49).
"Archaic. 1. Later and reflex Mycenaean (so-called Oriental) influence: cow's head (No. 25),
lion (No. 29), fibulae (Nos. 883-918). 2. More independent and developed archaism : fragments
of statues (locks of hair), statuettes, horse (No. 18), cows (Nos. 26, 27), mouse (No. 30, frag. No.
31), bird's head (No. 50), mirrors, saucers, sphinx amphora, fragment of rim with lotus and
palmettes, low tripod stand, hand strainer, handle with engraved horses' heads, fragment of chariot
antyx, imitation harness straps, ring-fibulae (Nos. 919-945), lion fibula (No. 946), cut figures
(e. g. dolphin, head and neck of bird). A considerable number of the straight pins also belong-
here.
" The Geometric style, while interposed between the Mycenaean and Archaic styles, is represented
by a smaller number of objects than either, and has left but few traces of its influence on the
later style. As a result of the slight impression made by the Geometric style on the Mycenaean,
the latter, through its later stages, passes either directly or with slight modification into the early
Archaic. Between the two there is, as may be seen, for example, from the various types of straight
pins, no essential change in technique, the difference lying mainly in the introduction of some
elements of ornamentation derived from the Geometric style and some subjects like the griffin
derived from the Orient. An Oriental style does not exist among the bronzes from the
Heraeum."'
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