. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . Fig. 3. Iron the Acropolis. it, at all events, to have antedated the Middle Ages(Museum, No. M. 603, Fig. 3). 1 liiaJ, V. 393, XI. 507. Elsewhere in the Iliad the fittings of arrows areespecially referred to as of bronze (e. g. XIII. 650, 662). - Compare the ancient Persian arrow-heads given by James P. Morier, A Scx-ond Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, etc., London, iSlS. 2 Almost all the troops which formed the army of were armed withthe bow. Compare Herodotos, VII. 61-S0. Bronze arrow-heads of
. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . Fig. 3. Iron the Acropolis. it, at all events, to have antedated the Middle Ages(Museum, No. M. 603, Fig. 3). 1 liiaJ, V. 393, XI. 507. Elsewhere in the Iliad the fittings of arrows areespecially referred to as of bronze (e. g. XIII. 650, 662). - Compare the ancient Persian arrow-heads given by James P. Morier, A Scx-ond Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, etc., London, iSlS. 2 Almost all the troops which formed the army of were armed withthe bow. Compare Herodotos, VII. 61-S0. Bronze arrow-heads of this three-bladed kind are, however, said to be found in Greece upon every spot wherea battle is known to have been fought. See Dodwell, A Classical and Topo-graphical Tour through Greece, London, 1S19, vol. ii. p. 160. 46 ARCHAEOLOGICAL hXSTITUTE. Within the enclosure of the Acropolis no such arms orimplements were found, and the only human remains werethe crumbling bones of one individual, contained in a cistneatly constructed of large tiles, which had b
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