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p. 68, who gives it as a pelekys or axe, which he
says is an amulet against fascination. Fig. 44 is
from a sketch by the writer from the same museum.
Fig. 43.
Fig. 44.
It also suggests an axe in shape, about one and a
half times the size of illustration, and from its being
evidently for suspension, it is here suggested that it
may be an amulet. Being of bronze, and very thin,
it is possible that its use may be the same as the
Fig. 45.
Fig. 46.
very numerous handled half- moons of about the
same size, found there and in other museums, which
are well known to be ancient razors. In the object
here shown, there is but one possible cutting edge,
that at the bottom. Figs. 45, 46 represent an
Etruscan coin -^^ of the town of Luna. The devices
engraved upon it almost certainly prove that they
258 Fiom Dennis's Etruria^ vol. ii. p. b^,.