. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 71. Silver Dagger from Tholos Ossuary, Kumasa (-|).. Fig. 72. Copper Two-pronged Spearhead, H. Onuphrios Deposit (|). blade-like silver ingots of Hissarlik and, like these, it may have served as aform of primitive currency. Copper daggers representing a somewhat elon-gated outgrowth of the present example, though with less prominent ribs, arefound in Cycladic graves ^ contemporary with E. M. II1. But what is speciallyinteresting is the fact
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 71. Silver Dagger from Tholos Ossuary, Kumasa (-|).. Fig. 72. Copper Two-pronged Spearhead, H. Onuphrios Deposit (|). blade-like silver ingots of Hissarlik and, like these, it may have served as aform of primitive currency. Copper daggers representing a somewhat elon-gated outgrowth of the present example, though with less prominent ribs, arefound in Cycladic graves ^ contemporary with E. M. II1. But what is speciallyinteresting is the fact that a practically identical dagger-blade of copper hasbeen found in a sepulchral cave belonging to the Chalcolithic Age of Central MossOj Le armi piu antiche di rame e dibronzo (Memorie della R. Accad. dei Lincei,1908, p 491, Fig. 8). ^ R. Dussaud, Les civilisations prdhelkniques,&c., 1914, p. 41, Fig. 22. Tsuntas, KuKXaSixd (£. Ap;)(., 1898), PL XII, 8. The forms of the associated marbleimages and other objects suggest an advancedEarly Cycladic phase. Unfortunately, however,tomb-groups are not distinguished. A some-what shorter specimen without any definite ribis given, together with
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