. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. 200 R. C. BOSANQUET AND F. B. WELCH Acropolis at Athens (cf. especially No. 7253), in a Bronze Age tomb in Syra(two together, E0. Apx. 1899, PI. x. 36, 37, pp. 100 and 111), and atTiryns {Tiryns, p. 79, Fig. 14); there were three in the Finlay collection, twofound together inside a vase in a tomb at Raphinais, in Attica; another,jnirehased at Athens, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. An alabaster rod, much worn and broadening at one end, may have beenused for a similar purpose. There are also some mortar-like vessels of soft pumice ; one is hollow
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. 200 R. C. BOSANQUET AND F. B. WELCH Acropolis at Athens (cf. especially No. 7253), in a Bronze Age tomb in Syra(two together, E0. Apx. 1899, PI. x. 36, 37, pp. 100 and 111), and atTiryns {Tiryns, p. 79, Fig. 14); there were three in the Finlay collection, twofound together inside a vase in a tomb at Raphinais, in Attica; another,jnirehased at Athens, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. An alabaster rod, much worn and broadening at one end, may have beenused for a similar purpose. There are also some mortar-like vessels of soft pumice ; one is hollowedout on both sides ; another roughly circular specimen has a rude lip-spout;. Fic. 173.—Pestles axd Mortars. another is oblong and has a hole with a lip below^ it in the centre of one-short side. Stones pierced or grooved for suspension forui a large and puzzling-class. A polished cube of black and white limestone, XXXVIII. 31, measuring04 by 04 by 03, has a perforation through the centre and through eachcorner, as if intended to be hung by fine strings. Similar cubes of terra-cotta are comnnni on early sites in East Crete and are sometimes explainedas loom-weights. Mr. R. M. Dawkins suggests that they may have beenused in making rope or twine. Fig. 174 represents a bell-sha])ed object of porous trachyte, pierced atthe top and slightly hollowed out at the base. Height 10. Pierced stone discs were found in considerable numbers. The\ aregenerally flatcircular pieces of coarse sandstone, sometimes of pumice, from05 to 10 in diameter, and have been bored from both sides. Sometimes the MINOR ANTIQUITIES OF METAL, BONE, IVORY AND STONE. 201 edges are bevelled. Cf.
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