History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 147
The Stone Age in Greece. 127 and in no respect can they challenge comparison with the fine products of the neolithic age of Northern and Western Europe.^ All the axes which we have passed in review have the air of having been put to many uses ; nevertheless we also light upon diminutive axes, which… … Fig. 13. — Jade axe. Fig. 14. — Amethyst and Cornelian axes. Three- eighths of actual size. the neck (Fig. 13). According to MM. Heldenreich and Dumont, very similar axes, worn about the person, are not uncommon at the present day in Greece. They go by the name of (puT^axTYjf^ioL, “ preservatives,”…
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