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Tibor Kovács: Representations of Weapons on Bronze Age Pottery

22 T. KOVÁCS Southern Europe, for analogical detail features point to the Aegean areas.

3" The most tangible southern parallels are to be found in the dagger of Grave (Fig. 10. no. 2), regarding both the form and position of the rivet holes, that had served for attaching the hilt. For probable prototypes we have to take into consideration the triangular daggers that had been in use during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, (as e.g. Tarsus,

38 Philia and the Lapithos Tomb in Cyprus,

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1). N. Sandars, in search of the predecessors of Aegean A-type swords with central rib and short haft plate, gives pieces of this type.

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2 Among the shorter, so-called B-type swords some have straight butt ends and on several pieces (as the Mycenae, Kameiros and Ismir ones) there are three rivets in a row on each shoulder (cf. Fig. 10. no. 11 — after N. Sandars).

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3 From our point of view the most important piece might be a sword of Grave VI of the Mycenaean Grave Circle A, whose hilt was attached with five rivets in a line to the butt and with one to the haft plate (Fig. 10. no. 12 - after G. Karo).

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4 Similarities in detail are, though, not decisive, especially when considering the fact that the socalled B-type swords did not reach the Balkans and the Carpathian basin.

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5 The fact is not to be neglected, however, that on the territory of Rumania, in first place in Transylvania, imported or imitated specimens of Aegean-A-type swords came to light; though, because of their fragmentary state there are some difficulties regarding their dating (cf. Fig. 10. nos. 13a-b - after VI. Dumitrescu).

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0 In looking for parallels of daggers with short haft plates the gold daggers, found at Mäcin and Persinari (Fig. 10. no. 17 - after A. Mozsolics) further the much more recent specimen of the Borodino hoard, together with similar East European pieces, are not to be neglected.

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7 For a detailed account v. Kovács, T., Arch.

Ért. 100(1973) In print. 3

8 Sandars, N. K., The first European swords and their ancestry. AJA 65(1961) 15, PI. 2. 3

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7., Cypriot bronzework in the Mycenaean world. (Oxford 1964) 59-60, Fig. 3/3, 5. 4

0 Dietz, S., Aegean and Near-Eastern metal daggers in Early and Middle Bronze Age Greece. ActaA 42(1971) Fig. 10a. 4

1 Caskey, J. L., Excavations at Lerna. Hesperia 26(1957) 151, Pl. 42c. 4

2 Sandars, N. K., The first etc. 18sqq. 4

3 Karo, G., Die Schachtgräber von Mykenae. (München 1931) Pis. LXXIII 413; LXXIV 435; CXXXI 736 etc.; Sandars, N. K., The first etc. 22sqq, PI. 19, 1. 6-7. 4

4 Karo, G., op. cit. Pl. XCV 928; cf. Hacbmann, R., Die frühe Bronzezeit im westlichen Ostseegebiet und ihre mittel- und südosteuropäischen Beziehungen. (Hamburg 1957) 166sqq, PI. 68, 1. 4

5 Sandars, N. K., The first etc. 27-28. 4

ß Dumitrescu, VI., Rapière en bronze, du type Mycénien, trouvée au sud-ouest de Bucarest {près Roçiorii-de-Vede). Dacia 5-6(1935-36) 169-173, Pl. I; Horedt, K., Siebenbürgen und Mykenä. Nouvelles Études d'Histoire 2(1960) 32-36; cf. Bou%ek, ]., The Aegean and Central Europe. An introduction to the study of cultural interrelations 1600-1300 B.C. PA 57(1966) 245sqq. 4

7 Mozsolics, A., Goldfunde des Depotfundhorizontes von Hajdúsámson. BRGK 46—47 (1965-66) 50-51, Pl. I, 1-2; Caiet selectif de informare asupra creçterii colecfiilor Bibliotecii Academiei RPR 8(1963) 414-418, Pis. I-III. Safronov, V. A., Datirovka Borodinskogo klada. PrA 1(1968) 117-119, Pl. I, Fig. 8 19-21, 28; Leskov, A. M., О severoprichernomorskom ochage metalloobrabotki v epohu pozdnej bronzy. In: Pamiatniki Epokhi Bronzy Juga Evropeiskoi Chasti SSSR. (Kiev 1967) 170, Fig. 3-4, 10.