¹ I am most grateful to Mr. Sarmas, who agreed to my request for permission to publish these objects. The photographs are by my husband, Thanasis, the drawings by the author.

² They are briefly mentioned in ADelt 25B (1970) 202, 205 pl. 185a–b. Two other objects of the collection (one double axe and one sealstone) are not studied here, as they have been already published by Drs. Davaras and Th. J. Papadopoulos, see AAA III: 3 (1970) 313 figs. 3–4 and Mycenaean Achaea, Abbreviations additional to those in standard use:

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Hamburg Hamburg Museum's für Kunst und Gewerbe Catalogue number.

KChr Kretika Chronika.

LMTS d'Desborough, V. R., The Last Mycenaeans and Their Successors (Oxford, 1964).Google Scholar

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Mycenaean Achaea Papadopoulos, Th. J., Mycenaean Achaea, SIMA vol. lv (Göteborg, 1978).Google Scholar

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SCE The Swedish Cyprus Expedition (Stockholm, 1934, onwards).

³ GDA 61, 93 pls. 4, 6b fig. 11 and KChr 24: II (1972) 245–77 Pls. KZ–T.

⁴ Mycenaean Achaea.

⁵ Vermeule, E., AJA lxiv (1960), 12Google Scholar; Karageorghis, Nouveaux Documents, 195; Alaas, a Protogeometric necropolis in Cyprus, 55–6; RDAC 1976, 87; Bouzek, , Eirene 8 (1970) 110–17Google Scholar; A. Pieridou, PRC 68–9; Gjerstad, SCE IV: 2, 293; Åström, SCE IV: ID, 750–1.

⁶ Wace, ChT 173.

⁷ Mycenaean Achaea.

⁸ Twenty-seven examples, dated c. 1100–1050 B.C., are known to Desborough from at least seven sites (Enkomi, Lapithos, Salamis, Palaepaphos, Idalion, Kourion, Kition). See KChr 24: II (1972) 24.7–52, 258–60 pls. KZ–B with all relevant references.

⁹ Desborough has doubted about such a link (LMTS, xiv) but recently changed his opinion KChr 24: II (1972) 273.

¹⁰ KChr 24: II (1972) 254–6.

¹¹ See e.g. Mycenae, ChT 205 pls. viii. 71 and ix. 7; Prosymna 298–300, 307 f.); PN III, 82, 91, 92, 131, 132, 170, 182, etc.; Perati B 304–5 fig. 128.1.

¹² PAE 1932, 59 fig. 4.

¹³ It comes very close to some Kephallenian beads from Mazarakata, Lakkithra and Metaxata Kavvadias, Προῖστο ρική Αρχαιολογία 366, fig. 456; AE 1932, 17; 1933, 91 pl. 3 and some others from Olympia (Bambes-Makrysia), , PAE 1954, 295 fig. 8.Google Scholar

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¹⁵ PAE 1932, 61 fig. 12.

¹⁶ AA 43 (1928) 286 no. 15 fig. 15a.

¹⁷ Kavvadias, Προϊστορική Αρχοκολογίς 366 fig. 455 (Mazarakata); AE 1932 pl. 17 (Lakkithra); 1933, 91 pl. 3: B.3, B.4, B.8 (Metaxata) and fig. 40: A.1, B.5.

¹⁸ ADelt 18B (1963) 103 Pl. 138e–s (Renia).

¹⁹ Delphi, Temenos Tomb fig. 56.

²⁰ Deiras pl. XLVIII: 8.

²¹ ADelt 19B (1964) pl. 301 (upper row).

²² FLMV pl. C: 10–11; Maiuri 157, 164, 220, figs. 82, 92, 142 (Ialysos, Tombs XXVIII: 22; XXXI: 30; LIII: 25); Jacopi 311 fig. 58 (Ialysos, Tomb LXXX: 7).

²³ ADelt 26B (1971) pl. 528b (Armenioi-Rethymnis).

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²⁵ Cf. Higgins, GRJ 42.