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KOUMASA
29
objects
Pin
Awls
1206. A pin, possibly a hairpin; the blunt half is ornamented with tholos b
three bosses and the end is flattened into an oval. Between the bosses incisions metal
imitate a string of beads. Length "105 m.
1207, 1207 a, 1208. Three small tools square in section and pointed at
one or both ends, probably awls or borers or prickers (oV^'tux, o-TiKrrjpes) such
as Professor Tsountas found in Cycladic tombs.1 Such alines a tatouer, accord-
ing to M. Dechelette,2 had a wide distribution in neolithic days and lasted till
the bronze age. These three are from -05 m. to *07 m. long.
1197. A saw with slightly curved blade and very fine teeth on the convex
side. Length -143 m.
3. Gold Ornaments.
386 (Plate IV). A pendant in the form of a toad squatting. Length Toad rendant
•01 m., weight 1-1 grammes. The attitude, the bulging eyes, and the mouth
shown by a slit are fairly true to life. The warts are shown by granulation.
This I believe to be the earliest authentic example of granular ornament, which
hitherto had not been found before the Mycenaean age.3 Granulations are
also found on the small gold disc described below (No. 388). The underneath
preserves part of the very fine wire of a design in cloisonne. The pendant is
pierced through the length of the toad with a hole of very fine bore that would
take only the finest thread.
It would seem that it was not simple fancy that gave the toad or frog form
to this amulet or pendant, for the frog was used as an apotropaic amulet in
Egypt from prehistoric or early dynastic times,4 being thought, as an emblem
of immortality and resurrection, to safeguard the life beyond the tomb.5
Moreover, the Egyptians worshipped the creature as the goddess Heket.6
In the Later Minoan and Mycenaean periods, also, the frog is found as
a pendant. Sir Arthur Evans found a small specimen in lapis lazuli in the
Knossian Royal Tomb at Isopata,7 and a gold example was found in Tholos A
at Kakovatos.8
387. A gold bead from a necklace in shape and size like the seed capsule
of the lilac (7racr^aXta, syringa vulgaris).
Further, there were found a few bands of gold sheeting, two small narrow
elongated necklace beads, and two small pierced discs, one with a lip of raised
granulations round the hole (No. 388).
1 'E<£. 'Apx- (1899), o-«X. 102, Htv. 10, ipi$. 9, 227, 245; Prehistoric Egypt, Plate IX, 18, 19, 20,
12, kcu <777/x. 2. Plate VIII, 37, 38 ; Diospolis Parva, p. 26.
2 Dechelette, op. tit., II, pp. 342-313, fig. 137. Petrie and Quibell, Naqada and Ballas, p. 45.
3 Ath. Mitt., XXXIV, ]ip. 301 fF., Kakovatos. The Capart, Les debuts de Vart en Jigypte, p. 186.
examples from Troy (Dorpfeld, Trqja, p. 358 ; 5 Rev. pjL Gr., XXXII (1919), p. 145.
Beilage, 43, V and VI) and Crete (Evans, Picto- „ c t cit 213
graphs, p. 110, fig. 94, from the Idaean Cave, not 1 ' . . '
from Hagios Onouphrios) are not so old as they Evans> Prehistoric Tombs, p. 153, fig. 132.
have been thought. 8 Ath. Mitt., XXXIV, pp. 271, Taf. XII, 8, XIII,
4 Petrie, Abydos, II, Plates IX-XI, 200,214,222, 27.
29
objects
Pin
Awls
1206. A pin, possibly a hairpin; the blunt half is ornamented with tholos b
three bosses and the end is flattened into an oval. Between the bosses incisions metal
imitate a string of beads. Length "105 m.
1207, 1207 a, 1208. Three small tools square in section and pointed at
one or both ends, probably awls or borers or prickers (oV^'tux, o-TiKrrjpes) such
as Professor Tsountas found in Cycladic tombs.1 Such alines a tatouer, accord-
ing to M. Dechelette,2 had a wide distribution in neolithic days and lasted till
the bronze age. These three are from -05 m. to *07 m. long.
1197. A saw with slightly curved blade and very fine teeth on the convex
side. Length -143 m.
3. Gold Ornaments.
386 (Plate IV). A pendant in the form of a toad squatting. Length Toad rendant
•01 m., weight 1-1 grammes. The attitude, the bulging eyes, and the mouth
shown by a slit are fairly true to life. The warts are shown by granulation.
This I believe to be the earliest authentic example of granular ornament, which
hitherto had not been found before the Mycenaean age.3 Granulations are
also found on the small gold disc described below (No. 388). The underneath
preserves part of the very fine wire of a design in cloisonne. The pendant is
pierced through the length of the toad with a hole of very fine bore that would
take only the finest thread.
It would seem that it was not simple fancy that gave the toad or frog form
to this amulet or pendant, for the frog was used as an apotropaic amulet in
Egypt from prehistoric or early dynastic times,4 being thought, as an emblem
of immortality and resurrection, to safeguard the life beyond the tomb.5
Moreover, the Egyptians worshipped the creature as the goddess Heket.6
In the Later Minoan and Mycenaean periods, also, the frog is found as
a pendant. Sir Arthur Evans found a small specimen in lapis lazuli in the
Knossian Royal Tomb at Isopata,7 and a gold example was found in Tholos A
at Kakovatos.8
387. A gold bead from a necklace in shape and size like the seed capsule
of the lilac (7racr^aXta, syringa vulgaris).
Further, there were found a few bands of gold sheeting, two small narrow
elongated necklace beads, and two small pierced discs, one with a lip of raised
granulations round the hole (No. 388).
1 'E<£. 'Apx- (1899), o-«X. 102, Htv. 10, ipi$. 9, 227, 245; Prehistoric Egypt, Plate IX, 18, 19, 20,
12, kcu <777/x. 2. Plate VIII, 37, 38 ; Diospolis Parva, p. 26.
2 Dechelette, op. tit., II, pp. 342-313, fig. 137. Petrie and Quibell, Naqada and Ballas, p. 45.
3 Ath. Mitt., XXXIV, ]ip. 301 fF., Kakovatos. The Capart, Les debuts de Vart en Jigypte, p. 186.
examples from Troy (Dorpfeld, Trqja, p. 358 ; 5 Rev. pjL Gr., XXXII (1919), p. 145.
Beilage, 43, V and VI) and Crete (Evans, Picto- „ c t cit 213
graphs, p. 110, fig. 94, from the Idaean Cave, not 1 ' . . '
from Hagios Onouphrios) are not so old as they Evans> Prehistoric Tombs, p. 153, fig. 132.
have been thought. 8 Ath. Mitt., XXXIV, pp. 271, Taf. XII, 8, XIII,
4 Petrie, Abydos, II, Plates IX-XI, 200,214,222, 27.