The Late Bronze Age Daggers of the Aegean I: The Greek MainlandA systematic catalogue; after an introduction and brief summary of research the author lists the material, arranging it typologically. He follows this with a wide-ranging discussion of problems concerning material and technique, decoration, function, foreign affinities, distribution and chronology. Very good illustrations. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Oddities | 12 |
Cruciform Daggers | 18 |
Daggers of Peschiera Type | 29 |
Index of Abbreviations | 60 |
Plates A B and 127 | 1 |
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Achaea Aegean AntCl Archaeologia Homerica Athens Nat blade of elliptical Blegen Branigan bronze sheets Catling century B.C. Chamber Tomb chipped cm Pl convex butt cruciform daggers cutting edges daggers Dakaris Date according decorated Dendra Dickinson Dodoni Eleusis elliptical section flanged flat midrib flattish blade gold gold-plated rivets Grave Circle GrBA grip hilt hilt-plates hoard inlaid daggers Ioannina joining pieces Karo Katarraktis Kirrha Laffineur LBA daggers LH II-III LH III LH III B-C lozenge-shaped section Marinatos Matthäus Messenia Metalwork Minoan Müller-Karpe Museum Mycenae Argolid Mylonas Nauplion niello ogival blade op.cit OpAth oxidized and swollen Papadopoulos plate pommel Prosymna Pylos rivet-holes rivets in line Sandars Sesklo severely oxidized Shaft Grave shoulders small rivets specimens Spyropoulos straight butt swords symmetrically bevelled edges tang tangless daggers tapering technique Thera Thesauroi Tholos Tomb three massive three rivets Tsountas Vapheio Variant Vermeule weapons