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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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In the old Lacedaemonian district of Amyclae, where a series of distinctly pre-Hellenic cults was preserved down to historic times, one of the richest Mycenaean tholos tombs, that of Vaphio, was discovered fifty years ago. Some of the objects found in this tomb shew clearly oriental connections, while others, among which are the two famous gold goblets, are of pure Minoan origin.
Though the tomb was not plundered, some of the objects contained in it were scattered about. The fragments of an inlaid dagger, decorated with a representation of swimming men, have been tentatively reconstructed by me. Another weapon from the same tomb is discussed on p. 190.
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page 187 note 1 Tsuntas, 
1889, pp. 130 sqq. For the pre-Hellenic and presumably Minoan cults of Amyclae see M. Nilsson, Minoan-Mycenaean Religion etc. 403 and 485 and ed. Meyer, , Geschichte des Altertums, 2, 1 (2nd edition, 1928) p. 253.Google Scholar
page 187 note 2 For this fact see my two papers: ‘Religionsgeschichtliche Fragen zu Funden aus Vaphio und Knossos,’ Arch. Anzeiger 1929, pp. 166–70 and ‘Kreta, und die hethitische-kleinasiatische Welt im 2. Jahrtausend’ (Il türkischer Geschichtshongress, 1937) p. 11 (of the off-print).
page 187 note 3 Essays in Aegean Archaeology presented to Sir Arthur Evans pp. 63 sqq. and cf. Evans, Palace of Minos etc. III pp. 127sqq.Google Scholar
page 187 note 4 Cf. also Tsuntas p. 158.
page 189 note 1 Stais Collection Mycénienne p. 156 no. 1867.
page 189 note 2 See, for instance, Museum Catalogue no. 1246 from Hagia Triada (case 40). Sir Arthur Evans has treated the spear types in his Shaft Graves and Beehive Tombs of Mycenae (1929) P. 37 sqq. figs. 27–9.
page 190 note 1 See Evans Scripta Minoa p. 158, under no. P. 47.
page 190 note 2 Odys. ξ 531, φ 340.
page 191 note 1 The first is a gem from the Vaphio tomb. The second is reproduced from Evans Palace of Minos etc. IV p. 542 fig. 496.
page 191 note 2 Cf. Herodot. V, 9: 
Arist. poet. 21, 6: 
(i.e., common word) 
(i.e., rare word). This expression designated especially ‘hunting spear and generally spear’ (Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, s.v.). Hesych. gives the meaning 
boar-hunting spear. Another instance which proves that the weapon was of small dimensions is the statement by Diod. 18, 27, that the funeral car of Alexander the Great had, among other decorations, lion-protomes bearing sibynae in their teeth 
page 191 note 3 Cf. Meyer, Leo, Handbuch der griechischen Etymologie IV p. 21Google Scholar: ‘Ohne Zweifel ungriechisch.’