Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . Fig. 98.—Clay head of a man ; Mochlos, §. plausibly be assigned to men, are either simple with amere button or catch at the end, or have on them ahead in the form of such an animal as an ibex,^ anadornment as appropriate to a Mycenaean gentlemanshairpin as a horseshoe or a fox to the tie-pin of a modernEnglish hunting man. A simple hairpin of twistedgold, with one end bent over to form a catch, found inthe Royal Tomb at Isopata in Crete,^ probably be-longed to a man. The hairpins that certainly belongedto
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . Fig. 98.—Clay head of a man ; Mochlos, §. plausibly be assigned to men, are either simple with amere button or catch at the end, or have on them ahead in the form of such an animal as an ibex,^ anadornment as appropriate to a Mycenaean gentlemanshairpin as a horseshoe or a fox to the tie-pin of a modernEnglish hunting man. A simple hairpin of twistedgold, with one end bent over to form a catch, found inthe Royal Tomb at Isopata in Crete,^ probably be-longed to a man. The hairpins that certainly belongedto women, found in Grave III at Mycenae, were muchlarger and more elaborate, one having a stem of silver(a great rarity then) and a golden head in the shape of a 1 ScHUCHHARDT, SchUemann, Fig. 217.^ Evans, Prehistoric Tombs, Fig. 129. COSTUME, ARMOUR, ETC. 239 woman squatting amid lotus-plants,^ worked in a stylevery like that of one of the objects of the AeginetanTreasure (p. 59). Other pins had balls of quartz orrock-crystal for heads. And from other sites we havebronze
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