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THE VAULTED TOMBS OF MESARA
tholos b 2. Other Copper Objects. (Plate XXIV b.)
metal ■ •
objects 1196. A knife blade, two-edged, narrow at the two ends but broadening
A Broad Knife to a good width in the middle. There are two handle rivets at one end.
Length -155 m., greatest breadth -045 m. There are similar blades from
Platanos, and one exactly like it from Amorgos has been published by Professor
Tsountas.1
Cutters 1200, 1201.2 Two miniature copper cutters or hatchets with one edge.
These are found in quantities in most Early Minoan tombs. Three were found
in the Mochlos tombs,3 two of which still keep their ivory handles. Mr. Seager
has noticed that they are often found with copper hair tweezers, and thinks
that they had a use in the Minoan toilet. The usual shape of these small
choppers is that of 1200, more or less oblong, but widened out at the end that
has the convex cutting edge. The other end has two fine rivets to fasten the
handle. Dimensions : 1200, -06 m. long, -035 m. broad; 1201, -035 m. long,
•011 m. broad. These choppers might be compared with the common haches
plates of the stone age in Europe,4 and with the Italian ' flat celts ' of
the chalcolithic period,5 but the handle, as the examples from Mochlos
and Platanos6 show, continued the line of the blade, whereas the ' flat
celt' was hafted at right angles. The small size of the Cretan specimens
points either to a shortage of metal, or more probably to their being meant
not for use, but to be worn from religious motives as amulets in death
as in life.
Depilatory 1202, 1203, 1205. Three tweezers to remove superfluous hair. These are
Tweezers common objects in Early Minoan 7 and Cycladic graves.8 They are made in
one piece and their two arms are widened at the ends, and in some the edges
are bent a little inwards in order to grip and pull out the finest hair. The
length of these three varies between -07 m. and 40 m.
These Cretan tweezers are of the same type as the predynastic Egyptian,
such as those from the earliest tombs of Naqada.9 Specimens in silver are
known, one from the first shaft grave at Mycenae and others from tombs of
the Cycladic age in Euboea.10 The discovery of such implements in the tombs
of Zapher Papoura near Knossos 11 shows that their use continued into the
Mycenaean age.
1 Tmrfrm, Kvx\a8u<d, he. tit. (1898), <re\. 190, 8 'E<£. 'Ap\- (1898), Uiv. 12, dpi6. 4; (1899),
the 11. crtA. 103, Iltv. 10, dpiO. 40, 41, 42.
2 They are reproduced also by Mosso, Origini,
p. 80, fig. 58, where he calls them ' accette votive.' 9 Dechelette, op. at., II, p. 340, fig. 136. _
3 Seager, Mochlos, pp. 21 and 73, fig. 44, 1,1; Petne, Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties,
XIX, 29*30. B II, p. 36, Plate XLIII, 15.
4 Dechelette, op. at., II, p. 243, fig. 80. io p. Ua^-aBaa^lov, op. cit., <re\. 6 «al 8, etV.
• Peet, op. tit figs. 129-133. 4 n n jj d £ 3.
6 No. 1944. See Plate LVI. ' ' H
7 Seager, Mochlos, pp. 73, 74, fig. 44, XIX, 28, 11 Evans, Prehistoric 'Tombs, p. 115 ; Palace.
33. fig. 70.
THE VAULTED TOMBS OF MESARA
tholos b 2. Other Copper Objects. (Plate XXIV b.)
metal ■ •
objects 1196. A knife blade, two-edged, narrow at the two ends but broadening
A Broad Knife to a good width in the middle. There are two handle rivets at one end.
Length -155 m., greatest breadth -045 m. There are similar blades from
Platanos, and one exactly like it from Amorgos has been published by Professor
Tsountas.1
Cutters 1200, 1201.2 Two miniature copper cutters or hatchets with one edge.
These are found in quantities in most Early Minoan tombs. Three were found
in the Mochlos tombs,3 two of which still keep their ivory handles. Mr. Seager
has noticed that they are often found with copper hair tweezers, and thinks
that they had a use in the Minoan toilet. The usual shape of these small
choppers is that of 1200, more or less oblong, but widened out at the end that
has the convex cutting edge. The other end has two fine rivets to fasten the
handle. Dimensions : 1200, -06 m. long, -035 m. broad; 1201, -035 m. long,
•011 m. broad. These choppers might be compared with the common haches
plates of the stone age in Europe,4 and with the Italian ' flat celts ' of
the chalcolithic period,5 but the handle, as the examples from Mochlos
and Platanos6 show, continued the line of the blade, whereas the ' flat
celt' was hafted at right angles. The small size of the Cretan specimens
points either to a shortage of metal, or more probably to their being meant
not for use, but to be worn from religious motives as amulets in death
as in life.
Depilatory 1202, 1203, 1205. Three tweezers to remove superfluous hair. These are
Tweezers common objects in Early Minoan 7 and Cycladic graves.8 They are made in
one piece and their two arms are widened at the ends, and in some the edges
are bent a little inwards in order to grip and pull out the finest hair. The
length of these three varies between -07 m. and 40 m.
These Cretan tweezers are of the same type as the predynastic Egyptian,
such as those from the earliest tombs of Naqada.9 Specimens in silver are
known, one from the first shaft grave at Mycenae and others from tombs of
the Cycladic age in Euboea.10 The discovery of such implements in the tombs
of Zapher Papoura near Knossos 11 shows that their use continued into the
Mycenaean age.
1 Tmrfrm, Kvx\a8u<d, he. tit. (1898), <re\. 190, 8 'E<£. 'Ap\- (1898), Uiv. 12, dpi6. 4; (1899),
the 11. crtA. 103, Iltv. 10, dpiO. 40, 41, 42.
2 They are reproduced also by Mosso, Origini,
p. 80, fig. 58, where he calls them ' accette votive.' 9 Dechelette, op. at., II, p. 340, fig. 136. _
3 Seager, Mochlos, pp. 21 and 73, fig. 44, 1,1; Petne, Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties,
XIX, 29*30. B II, p. 36, Plate XLIII, 15.
4 Dechelette, op. at., II, p. 243, fig. 80. io p. Ua^-aBaa^lov, op. cit., <re\. 6 «al 8, etV.
• Peet, op. tit figs. 129-133. 4 n n jj d £ 3.
6 No. 1944. See Plate LVI. ' ' H
7 Seager, Mochlos, pp. 73, 74, fig. 44, XIX, 28, 11 Evans, Prehistoric 'Tombs, p. 115 ; Palace.
33. fig. 70.