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(d) 1919, 1950. (Plate LVI.) the
cemetery
These two small copper tools were found in Tholos A. In shape they are metal
like a sickle, but the cutting edge is on the convex side, which has, however, objects
Small Si kl
an undulating, not a continuous, curve. At the handle end a tang proiects ^a . ■
o» » ox j shaped lools
from the square base, while the other end curves into a point. Their use is
quite uncertain.
(e) Depilatory tweezers
A fair number of tweezers were found, mostly broken. The best preserved, Tweezers
2037, is shown in Plate LVI. It is made in one piece and is -09 m. long. The
arms of five others were found which appear to have been joined together and
fastened to a handle.1
(f) Double axes
Three were found (Plate LVI).
1909 and 1943. These were votive offerings of considerable size, each Double Axes
blade being made separately out of sheet copper and riveted to the central
portion which contained the hole for the shaft.
1910. This is a miniature axe cast solid, and probably used as an amulet.
The two large specimens were found outside Tholos A, the one by the
entrance, the other by the southern section of the circuit wall. The small axe
was inside the same tholos.
1909 measures -13 m. across with a blade width of '067 m. ; 1943, which
is perfect, is *175 m. from blade to blade, and *085 m. wide at the edge.
1910 is -033 m. from blade to blade.
The belief used to be held 2 that the double axe is not found in the Early
Minoan age. But since Mr. Seager 3 found one of copper and two of lead at
Mochlos, and my colleague, Dr. Chatzedakis, found eighteen miniature specimens
of lead and one of silver in the cave of the village of Arkalochori,4 it is now
established that the double axe was used as a sacred symbol from the Early
Minoan period. Further confirmation is given by these three specimens from
Platanos, the flimsy construction of which proves their ritual use.
As Sir Arthur Evans remarks,5 ritual symbols like the double axe and the
sacred horns go back to the borders of the neolithic age.
(g) Miscellaneous. (Plate LVI.)
(1) Three copper hair-pins were found outside the tholoi. The largest, Miscellaneous
1957, is illustrated. The end is bent over into a hook and the surface is finely Hair-pins
corrugated to give it grip. Length -10 m.
(2) 1955, a bangle of stout copper wire -05 m. in diameter. Bangle
1 For a discussion of these tools see p. 28. 4 Hazzidakis, An Early Minoan Sacred Cave at
2 Dechelette, op. at., II, p. 482. Arkalokhori. B.S.A., XIX, p. 46, fig. 9.
3 Seager, Mochlos, pp. 35-36, fig. 12 ; 11, 46. 5 Evans, Palace, p. 57.
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(d) 1919, 1950. (Plate LVI.) the
cemetery
These two small copper tools were found in Tholos A. In shape they are metal
like a sickle, but the cutting edge is on the convex side, which has, however, objects
Small Si kl
an undulating, not a continuous, curve. At the handle end a tang proiects ^a . ■
o» » ox j shaped lools
from the square base, while the other end curves into a point. Their use is
quite uncertain.
(e) Depilatory tweezers
A fair number of tweezers were found, mostly broken. The best preserved, Tweezers
2037, is shown in Plate LVI. It is made in one piece and is -09 m. long. The
arms of five others were found which appear to have been joined together and
fastened to a handle.1
(f) Double axes
Three were found (Plate LVI).
1909 and 1943. These were votive offerings of considerable size, each Double Axes
blade being made separately out of sheet copper and riveted to the central
portion which contained the hole for the shaft.
1910. This is a miniature axe cast solid, and probably used as an amulet.
The two large specimens were found outside Tholos A, the one by the
entrance, the other by the southern section of the circuit wall. The small axe
was inside the same tholos.
1909 measures -13 m. across with a blade width of '067 m. ; 1943, which
is perfect, is *175 m. from blade to blade, and *085 m. wide at the edge.
1910 is -033 m. from blade to blade.
The belief used to be held 2 that the double axe is not found in the Early
Minoan age. But since Mr. Seager 3 found one of copper and two of lead at
Mochlos, and my colleague, Dr. Chatzedakis, found eighteen miniature specimens
of lead and one of silver in the cave of the village of Arkalochori,4 it is now
established that the double axe was used as a sacred symbol from the Early
Minoan period. Further confirmation is given by these three specimens from
Platanos, the flimsy construction of which proves their ritual use.
As Sir Arthur Evans remarks,5 ritual symbols like the double axe and the
sacred horns go back to the borders of the neolithic age.
(g) Miscellaneous. (Plate LVI.)
(1) Three copper hair-pins were found outside the tholoi. The largest, Miscellaneous
1957, is illustrated. The end is bent over into a hook and the surface is finely Hair-pins
corrugated to give it grip. Length -10 m.
(2) 1955, a bangle of stout copper wire -05 m. in diameter. Bangle
1 For a discussion of these tools see p. 28. 4 Hazzidakis, An Early Minoan Sacred Cave at
2 Dechelette, op. at., II, p. 482. Arkalokhori. B.S.A., XIX, p. 46, fig. 9.
3 Seager, Mochlos, pp. 35-36, fig. 12 ; 11, 46. 5 Evans, Palace, p. 57.