A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 101.—Halbert, Trieplatz,Potsdam, Prussia. J 100 DESCRIPTION OF CASE G ?with very high feet, one of which was painted with semicirclesand spirals in red and yellow. The presence of the spiral in-dicates Aegean influence, which cannot be earlier than the periodbetween 3000-2500 , when this ornament was first used inthe Greek Islands. Within these approximate limits the inhabit-ants of the Danube val-ley probably became ac-quainted with metals,either by independentinvention or instruction
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 101.—Halbert, Trieplatz,Potsdam, Prussia. J 100 DESCRIPTION OF CASE G ?with very high feet, one of which was painted with semicirclesand spirals in red and yellow. The presence of the spiral in-dicates Aegean influence, which cannot be earlier than the periodbetween 3000-2500 , when this ornament was first used inthe Greek Islands. Within these approximate limits the inhabit-ants of the Danube val-ley probably became ac-quainted with metals,either by independentinvention or instructionfrom a more advancedcivilisation. Various evi-dences of southern andoriental influences seemto favour the second al-ternative, and amongthese may be mentioned :daggers of a well-knownCyiiriote form (fig. 117).presumed to date fromthe third millennium;flat axes {left of Case), sometimes pierced at the butt, of a typeoccurring in Greece, the Aegean (fig. 119, ft), and at Hissar-lik ; double axes with central shaft-hole and both edges in one. Fig. 102 -Hollow iirmlot, Kissingoii,Bavaria. I
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