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F. Pendants and Necklace Beads. (Plates VIII and XXXIX b.) porti
The number of pendants and beads was few. PBNetcnts'
669. An elegant pendant of a black very shiny stone. Two views are
shown on Plate VIII.
664. A small cylindrical pendant of rock crystal. On each end a cross
is incised, with four small circles between the arms.
662 and 670. These are of black steatite.
672. Under this number are grouped eight spherical beads of faience, Necklace Beads
one of which preserves its red colour, while fire has turned the rest to grey or
black.
671. Ten beads of bluish steatite of the usual lozenge shape.
673. This group of beads of various stones of various shapes and sizes
were for the most part, like the preceding, picked out of the earth in the tholos.
674. 675. These are two ' whorls ' of bluish steatite found in trench y. Whorls
Diameters -03 m. and -025 m. We are just as doubtful about these as about
those of Koumasa, whether they were spindle whorls, the handle pommels of
some tool, buttons, or even pendants to wear.
Two small bits of amber were found in the tholos, one in the outer part Amber
of the entrance passage, the other in the earth inside. Both have lost their
original shape through decay, but they were not pierced, so that we cannot
think them to be pendants or necklace beads.
The Director of the Museum gave the fragments for analysis to the late Sig.
Mosso, who stated that they were Baltic amber, the earliest examples of amber
in Greek lands, and must have been brought from the north by the first people
to bring down tin.1 Sir Arthur Evans,2 however, doubts this, as he does not
consider Sig. Mosso's analysis satisfactory. In his view they may be merely
pieces of resin burnt as a deodoriser, such as he found in the tomb at Isopata
near Knossos.3
It is accepted that amber was known to the northern peoples round the
Baltic from the stone age, and that at the beginning of the bronze age it began
to be exported southwards to the Adriatic, the Balkans, and Greece.4
The earliest Greek specimens are those found in the shaft graves at
Myceiiae, which analysis showed to be from the Baltic.5 The Kakovatos
examples,6 also Baltic, are rather later(L.M. Ib).
1 Mosso, Origini, op. cit., pp. 291-292, where by tombs at Mycenae recently excavated by the
mistake they are quoted as from Koumasa. British School at Athens.—J. P. D.
2 I? wl t_i /ji n it i a , 4 Dechelette, op. cit., I, p. 626.
Evans, The Tomb of Ike Double Axes, p. 44. 5 Schliemann) %irym (LWon, 1886), pp. 369-
3 Small braziers, doubtless used for burning 372.
disinfectants, have been found in late Helladic 6 Aih. Mitt. (1909), p- 282.
69
F. Pendants and Necklace Beads. (Plates VIII and XXXIX b.) porti
The number of pendants and beads was few. PBNetcnts'
669. An elegant pendant of a black very shiny stone. Two views are
shown on Plate VIII.
664. A small cylindrical pendant of rock crystal. On each end a cross
is incised, with four small circles between the arms.
662 and 670. These are of black steatite.
672. Under this number are grouped eight spherical beads of faience, Necklace Beads
one of which preserves its red colour, while fire has turned the rest to grey or
black.
671. Ten beads of bluish steatite of the usual lozenge shape.
673. This group of beads of various stones of various shapes and sizes
were for the most part, like the preceding, picked out of the earth in the tholos.
674. 675. These are two ' whorls ' of bluish steatite found in trench y. Whorls
Diameters -03 m. and -025 m. We are just as doubtful about these as about
those of Koumasa, whether they were spindle whorls, the handle pommels of
some tool, buttons, or even pendants to wear.
Two small bits of amber were found in the tholos, one in the outer part Amber
of the entrance passage, the other in the earth inside. Both have lost their
original shape through decay, but they were not pierced, so that we cannot
think them to be pendants or necklace beads.
The Director of the Museum gave the fragments for analysis to the late Sig.
Mosso, who stated that they were Baltic amber, the earliest examples of amber
in Greek lands, and must have been brought from the north by the first people
to bring down tin.1 Sir Arthur Evans,2 however, doubts this, as he does not
consider Sig. Mosso's analysis satisfactory. In his view they may be merely
pieces of resin burnt as a deodoriser, such as he found in the tomb at Isopata
near Knossos.3
It is accepted that amber was known to the northern peoples round the
Baltic from the stone age, and that at the beginning of the bronze age it began
to be exported southwards to the Adriatic, the Balkans, and Greece.4
The earliest Greek specimens are those found in the shaft graves at
Myceiiae, which analysis showed to be from the Baltic.5 The Kakovatos
examples,6 also Baltic, are rather later(L.M. Ib).
1 Mosso, Origini, op. cit., pp. 291-292, where by tombs at Mycenae recently excavated by the
mistake they are quoted as from Koumasa. British School at Athens.—J. P. D.
2 I? wl t_i /ji n it i a , 4 Dechelette, op. cit., I, p. 626.
Evans, The Tomb of Ike Double Axes, p. 44. 5 Schliemann) %irym (LWon, 1886), pp. 369-
3 Small braziers, doubtless used for burning 372.
disinfectants, have been found in late Helladic 6 Aih. Mitt. (1909), p- 282.