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Part VII. A Bronze Founder's Hoard

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

F. H. Stubbings
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The bronzes described below were found about 0·20 m. below the surface in the central part of the Prehistoric Cemetery area excavated at Mycenae in 1952. (Cf. BSA XLVIII 6f., with pl. 2—hereinafter referred to without the volume reference.) They lay together in a small heap as though they had been buried in a bag of some material which had entirely perished. The numbers attached to the objects here are those of the 1952 excavation inventory.

The combination of cruciform hilt, flanged throughout, with a blade narrow but without midrib, is not very common, though there is a good L.M. III parallel from Palaikastro. Cruciform swords are rather more familiar; one from Prosymna is virtually a longer version of our dagger (44 cm. against 29) except that the flange does not continue round the butt end oil the hilt—perhaps because the larger weapon had a pommel of another material, in one piece, while for a dagger the pommel was made as part of the hilt. Other L.H. III daggers from Prosymna have the flanged hilt (not cruciform) with a broad thin blade.

Type
Mycenae 1939–1953
Information
Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 49 , November 1954 , pp. 292 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1954

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References

1 Bosanquet, R. C. and Dawkins, R. M., Unpublished Objects from Palaikastro 117 and pl. XXV 1.Google Scholar

2 C. W. Blegen, Prosymna fig. 198.

3 Prosymna 330 ff., type (d).

4 Prosymna, figs. 196, 607.

5 E.g. Athens: Montelius, O., La Grèce préclassique I 153, fig. 491 and p. 156Google Scholar; Zygouries: Blegen, C.W., Zygouries 203 and fig. 190,2Google Scholar; Mycenae: Montelius, op. cit. pl. 16, 8; Corinth: ibid. pl. 17, 4; ‘Amorgos’: Ashmolean Museum 1927.1362.

6 E.g. Montelius, op. cit. pls. 16, 10 and 12 (Gournia), 17, 2 and 3 (Siteia, Phaistos).

7 Cf. Wace, A. J. B., Chamber Tombs at Mycenae, pl. VII 50 (Tomb 518) with grooved backGoogle Scholar; C. W. Blegen, Prosymna, fig. 309, large, without groove.

8 Discussed by Blegen, , Prosymna 347Google Scholar; for the full shape cf. ibid., fig. 485, 4. They are often called razors, Tsountas, , AE 1888, 171.Google Scholar

9 Cf. Montelius, O., La Grèce préclassique 153Google Scholar, fig. 486 (Athens) and pl. 5, 12 (Mycenae).

10 Cf. Hazzidakis, J., Villas minoennes de Tylissos 96 and pl. XXVII c, dGoogle Scholar; Bosanquet, –Dawkins, , Unpublished Objects from Palaikastro 119 and pl. XXV, P.Google Scholar

11 Montelius, op. cit. 153 and fig. 484.

12 Ibid. fig. 487.

13 Wace, A. J. B., Ch. Tombs at Mycenae, pl. XXIX 19.Google ScholarCf. Bosanquet, –Dawkins, , Unpublished Objects from Palaikastro 119 and pl. XXV, O.Google Scholar

14 C. W. Blegen, Prosymna, fig. 244, 2; cf. figs. 58, 512.

15 Montelius, op. cit. 153, fig. 488.

16 E.g. A. S. Murray, etc., Excavations in Cyprus, fig. 25, no. 1472.

17 Persson, A. W., Royal Tombs at Dendra, pl. XXX 2Google Scholar, largest vessel; from chamber tomb no. 2, no. 29. For shape of handle, cf. ibid. pl. XXXI 6, on a bowl.

18 As, e.g. from Dendra, op. cit. pl. XXXI 2.

19 BPI 1904, 91 ff.; Corolla Numismatica 342 ff.; PM IV 652 ff.; Schaeffer, , Enkomi-Alasia 27 ff.Google Scholar For the ingot from Mycenae, see Seltman, , Athens, its History and Coinage 4f.Google Scholar, figs. 3, 4; Svoronos, , JIAN IX (1906), 153 ff., pls. II–V.Google Scholar

20 There are just a few exceptions, e.g. Blegen, C. W., Prosymna 255, 346 ff.Google Scholar and fig. 244.

21 Montelius, loc. cit. I am indebted to Mr. H. W. Catling for drawing my attention to the peculiar interest of that hoard, as well as for other references.

22 AJA VI 99f., 104 ff., and pl. XV. My attention was drawn to this hoard by Prof. Wace.

23 BSA XLVIII 23 (III).