Waldstein, Charles: The Argive Heraeum (Band 2): Terra-cotta figurines, terra-cotta reliefs, vases, vase fragments, bronzes, engraved stones, gems and ivories, coins, Egyptian or Graeco-Egyptian objects (Boston [u.a.], 1905)

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THE BRONZES

0.0108 m. Opening straight, with Leveled edges'.

Fine engraved line close to outer edges, and close

to centre on each side. Between each two lines,

zigzag. Zigzag made of minute arrowheads.

Discards of Type k: one open, one closed, one frag-
ment.

Type 1. Central convexity sharply marked.
Closed.

Form 1. Rather thin and somewhat sim-
ilar to Type k.

1496. From south slope. Diameter (inside),
0.0214 m. Height, 0.0235 in.

Form 2. Sharply defined narrow con-
vexity, FROM WHICH THE ENDS TAPER OFF
SLIGHTLY.

1497. From West Building. Diameter (in-
side), 0.017 m. Height, 0.0215 m.

Type m. Similar to Type 1, but ends termi-
nate in rim, Closed.

1498. From West Building. Diameter (in-
side), 0.021 m. Height, 0.0425 m. Each end
has zigzag between centre and rim. Line of
zio-za<r is itself a fine zio-zao-.

Type n. Rings of sheet bronze, sometimes
rather thick, -with form of plain, straight
bands, -with or -without engraved or
punched ornamentation.

(a'.) Closed and nnornamented.

1499. Diameter (inside), 0.0184 m. Height,
0.0125 m.

1500. Inside diameter, 0.019 m. Height,
0.02G m.

1501. Inside diameter, 0.015 m. Height,
0.028 m.

The above appear to be ferrules.

(5'.) Open and ornamented.

1502. Diameter (inside), 0.01G in. Height,
0.063 m. Zigzag on outside, from end to end,
like that of No. 1498.

1503. Diameter (inside), 0.0215 m. Height,
0.0091 m. Zigzag on outside.

1504. Diameter (inside), 0.0167 m. Height,
0.0098 m. Around centre, double band of short
lines.

1505. Bent flat. Diameter, as bent, 0.0198
hi. Height, 0.012 m. About centre, zigzag,
from which diverge similar zigzags, running to
edges at angle.1

1506. Part of one end gone. Diameter (in-
side), 0.025 m. Height, 0.0172 m. Zigzag or-
namentation.

1507. Bent flat. Diameter, as bent, 0.017 m.

1 Cf. Olympia, No. 403.

Height, 0.027 m. Ornamented with rows of
round punch-marks struck from inside. Ring
coiled about one and a half times.

1508. Preservation poor. Bent flat. Diam-
eter, as bent, 0.026 m. Height, 0.0363 m.
Ring coiled. Ornamented with three rows of
elliptical marks punched from inside. Part hid-
den by coiling not decorated.

Discarded: four.

Type o. Open ring of rather thick sheet
bronze (band-ring), with end or ends ter-
minating in coil of wire.

1509. One end broken. Diameter, 0.017 m.
Width, 0.0009 m. Height, 0.0072 m.2

Type p. Rings of sheet bronze, with sides
straight or nearly so, but with a raised
band about centre, as though in imitation
of the heavy rings of types k and 1, from
which types they are, however, distin-
guished by showing the concavity on the
inside. Open.

Form 1. Central raised zone not distin-
guished FROM FIELD EXCEPT BY ELEVA-
TION.

1510. Diameter (inside), 0.0217 m. Height,
0.0098 m.

1511. Fragment. Length, 0.04 m.

1512. Diameter (inside), 0.021 m. Height,
0.011 in. Traces of zi«'za<_r on each end.

1513. Diameter (inside), 0.02 m. Height,
0.018 in. Ends flare slightly. Each end has
zigzag made of a zigzag line.

1514. Diameter (inside), 0.018 m. Height,
0.0255 m. Made of two separate pieces of
bronze, one inside the other, each forming com-
plete ring. Inner ring thicker than outer. On
both ends of outer ring, traces of zigzag. Sim-
ilar to that of No. 1513.

1515. Fragment. Length, 0.032 m. Height,
0.046 m. Zigzag as before.

1516. From south slope. Condition poor. Di-
ameter (inside), 0.0225 m. Height, 0.0523 m.
Traces of zigzag.

1517. Bent flat. Diameter as bent. 0.029 m.
Height, 0.054 m. Zigzag on ends, as in No. 1513.

1518. From south slope. Fragment. Diame-
ter (inside), 0.029 m. Height, 0.059 m. Zig-
zag as in No. 1513.

Form 2. Highest part of raised central
zone has groove on either side.

1519. Fragment. Diameter (inside), 0.0185
m. Height, 0.0085 m. Zigzag as above.

^ Cf. Olympia, No. 404.