Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . in the British Museum ^ One of these mighty broadswords was discovered in 1910 at BetDagin, near Gaza, and is now in the British Museum. It had occurredto me that this weapon, originally regarded as a great spearhead orhalberd, was in reality a Philistine sword of Shardana type, andrecently Dr. Burchardt, of Berlin, when visiting the Museum, at oncecame to this conclusion, and I think he is undoubtedly right. Thesword is illustrated here (Fig. 109), and is to be published by and myself in the Proceedings
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . in the British Museum ^ One of these mighty broadswords was discovered in 1910 at BetDagin, near Gaza, and is now in the British Museum. It had occurredto me that this weapon, originally regarded as a great spearhead orhalberd, was in reality a Philistine sword of Shardana type, andrecently Dr. Burchardt, of Berlin, when visiting the Museum, at oncecame to this conclusion, and I think he is undoubtedly right. Thesword is illustrated here (Fig. 109), and is to be published by and myself in the Proceedings oj the Society of Antiquaries. I 2 3 Fig. 104.—Minoan bronze swords from Zafer Papoura ().Candia Museum. Scale, I, J ; 2, J ; 3, v COSTUME, ARMOUR, ETC. 249 have now been passed in interest by the splendidexamples discovered in the tombs at Zafer Papoura(Fig. 104). Two of these are over 90 cm. in hilts of these swords were plated with gold anddecorated with incised groups of lions and ibexes (), and their pommels were of ivory or of translucent.
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