A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 109
heGold Ornament Room Passage. A closer parallel to these is ablade from Cameiros which has the rivets still in place (No. 246).In other swords the raised flange on the edges of the hilt iscontinued to form a crescent-shaped pommel. The hollow spacewas filled with an ornamental material for the… … Fig. 97.—Bronze Spearheads op the Mycenaean Period (No. 251). 1 : 4. in the Woodhouse Collection (No. 248 ; fig. 95c). The projectionof flanges and pommel is accentuated, and the ends of theguard are curled up like horns. This type survived into theHellenic period. Another late Mycenaean form is…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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