Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . asmuch as possible with actualarchaeological remains, and ofremains of ancient Aegean cos-tume we have, naturally, nextto none. The earth of Greece,subject to much rainy weather,does not preserve fabrics as do,on the one hand, the dry soilof Egypt or Turkestan, on theother, the peat of Denmark andNorth Germany. We haveno actual specimen of textileslike those from Egypt, far lessactual costumes like those inthe Museum of NorthernAntiquities at we can hope to find are thoseadjuncts of costume which werem
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . asmuch as possible with actualarchaeological remains, and ofremains of ancient Aegean cos-tume we have, naturally, nextto none. The earth of Greece,subject to much rainy weather,does not preserve fabrics as do,on the one hand, the dry soilof Egypt or Turkestan, on theother, the peat of Denmark andNorth Germany. We haveno actual specimen of textileslike those from Egypt, far lessactual costumes like those inthe Museum of NorthernAntiquities at we can hope to find are thoseadjuncts of costume which weremade of metal. The goldenornaments of women are knownfrom Troy and Mochlos in theearlier period, from Mycenae inthe later. The Mycenaean diadems or tiaras (Fig. 4, 3),^though of thin metal as befits mere funereal objects, nodoubt preserve the appearance of the actual diademsworn in life and shewn in the Knossian and Tirynthianfrescoes.^ Then there are the hairpins, which are often ScHUCHHARDT, Schltitriann, Figs. 148-153. Smaller diadems were protiably worn also by the men,. Fig. 97.—Reconstructed clayfigurine; woman of theMiddle Minoan period, Petsofa. Scaie h. 238 AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY found. These, however, as we have seen, cannotalways be assigned to women. I have already de-scribed the elaborate Minoan male coiffure fully inmy Ancient History of the Near East, p. 50, to whichI refer the reader on the subject, and will onlysay here in connexion with the pins that whilethe Minoan men ordinarily wore their hair simplytied at the neck, or in a pigtail, sometimes it wascoiled up in a knot at the top of the head (Fig. 96;PI. XV, 2), as the Burmese men wear their hair now,or was rolled up round it (Fig. 98). To securethe knot hairpins would be necessary. The gold hair-pins from the Fourth Grave at Mycenae, which may
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