ISBN: 9781231029206

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 130 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 130 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: . . . broad. In This figure was found by me in my excavations in 1876, and is here reproduced from my Afycence, p. 14, No. 12. t Georges Perrot et Charles Chipiez, Histoire tie FArt, III. , pp. 404, 405, Fig. 277. J Schliemann, Mycence, p. 306, No. 463. Schliemann, Jlias, p. 476, Nos. 806-810; p. 485, No. 828; Troja, p. 166, Nos. 80, 81. the handle is an engraved line, 20 mm. long. There were two specimens of this tool discovered at a depth stated as from i-1 20 m. There are seven similar bronze chisels in the Museum at Copenhagen. In No. 99 I give a drawing of a bronze tool in the form of a bar, 135 mm. long and 6mm. thick, with one end flattened like a chisel. Similar tools were found at Mycenae f as well as at Troy. J Depth stated, i-i 20 m. The woodcut, No. i0e, gives a picture of a two-edged bronze battle-axe, 205 mm. long, 45 mm. wide, with a long oval hole in the centre. Depth of find i-i5omm. Two similar double-edged axes of bronze were found in Sophus Miiller, Ursprung und erste Entwiekelung tier europaischen Bronzccultur, Gerrmn translation by Miss J. Mestorf, 1882, p. 348. t Such a tool from Mycenae, is in the Mycenaean Museum at Athens. J Schliemann, llios, p. 482, Nos. 816, 817. l68 DOUBLE-EDGED BATTLE-AXES. CHAP. IV. my excavations at Mycenae. On the gold ornaments in the royal tombs at Mycenae I also found double-axes of this form commonly represented, as e. g. , between the horns of fifty-six cows-heads. f We find, moreover, a similar double-edged axe on a gold signet-ring of archaic Babylonian style, J and another on a remarkable gem of agate. A similar two-edged axe of copper was found in Hungary. This type of axe was characteristic of Asia Minor; and Zeus Labrandeus in Caria derived his name from Labranda, which in Carian meant a doubl. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

ISBN: 123102920X

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