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THE BRONZE AGE AND THE CELTIC WORLD
lying in a valley or rather a fold of the Apennines between the lakes of Trasimene and
Fucino. This distribution is of great importance for our thesis and will be referred to
again in a later chapter.
This type has been found, though very rarely in France, and six specimens have
been recorded in Britain, all from the mouth of the Thames, or from the south and east
coasts. I can find no records of its occurrence in Germany or Denmark.
But if Type D occurs rarely if at all in the west and north, we find it not uncommonly
in the south-east. Two swords of this type have been found at Mycenae, one by
Schliemann'*^ and the other by Tsountas,*' one has occurred at Levadia in Boeotia, a few
miles south of Orchomenos, while two more have been discovered in a grave at Muliana
in Crete. ^° The upper half of a sword, which has probably been influenced by this type,
though the butt and tang are different, comes from Cyprus, where it was rifled from a
tomb some thirty years ago.'' Lastly, we have records of two swords of this type from
Egypt, both from the Delta. '^ One of these, found at Zag-a-zig, is certainly of this type,
the other, found at Tell Firaun in the Delta, appears to be so also, but the butt seems to
have been sKghtly damaged. This sword bears upon it the cartouch of Seti II., which
seems to have been engraved upon it in or about 1205 B.C. These occurrences of Type
D swords in the south-east are specially interesting, and will be referred to again, as
they give us some basis on which to establish a chronological scheme. They may also help
us to bring our archaeological evidence into line with historical and legendary matter.
Type E is also common in Hungary, from which eleven specimens have been
recorded. These usually attain to very great dimensions. One is from an unknown
site," three from Podhering, found with swords of Type D,''* two from Rima-Szombat,
also with swords of Type D," one from Magyarorbzag,'* one from Gyula-fehervar in
48 Schliemann (1878) 144, No. 221.
49 Tsountas 'E0. 'Apx. (1891) 25.
5" Peet (1911-12) 282 ; 'E0. 'Apx- (1904)21-50.
51 In the possession of Professor Patrick Geddes.
s^ Petrie (1917) PI. xxxii. 6, 7 ; Z.f.yE.S. 1 61. ff. PI. v. ; Peet (1911-12) 282.
53 Catalogue (1891) 7. vii. 41 ; Naue (1903) ix. i.
54 Hampel (1886) xc. 3.
55 Hampel (1886) cxiii.
56 Buda-Pest Museum 1865/83.
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