THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901

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THE BROOCH. 563
From this roughly triangular type appears to spring one in
which the bow becomes completely angular the whole fibula
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thus forms a triangle. The apex of the angle which has replaced
the original bow is surmounted with a knob. Each
arm of the bow
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is ringed at intervals. Such brooches are
found in Graeco- Phoenician tombs of the sixth and fifth
centuries at Amathus, Curium, and elsewhere ^
Fibulae of this type may have been sometimes worn by the
Phoenicians of the mainland of Asia. One from Tartus here
figured is in the Ashmolean Museum (Fig. 116)-.
But, although the fibula is found on the coast of Asia
Minor, and in the Caucasus, it never had much vogue among
the peoples of Asia Minor and North Africa (at least in male
Fk;. 111). Bioii/.e Fil)ula, Tartus.
costume), for of all the nations that followed Xerxes the
Milvans alone fastened theii' gai'ments with it^.
In Ci'ete Miss Boyd^ has discovered (1900) at V]-onda
associated with late
Mycenean ])otti'ry fibulae of the |)lain
siMiii-cii'cuhir typo, such as arc found at Sahiinis, in the up])ei'
l>alkaii, Hungary, and Italy; two othci-s of the same shaj)e
have their bows considerably thickeiu-d.
Mr A. .). Kvans obtainod in Crete a fibula' (brokeu)
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belonging to a class which occurs in most parts of Italy'
and at Hallstatt^ and is found in the Sicel graves of Syracuse
and Apulia.
In the cemeteries of Rhodes of the Mycenean age no
Fig. 117. Bronze Fibula,
Rhodes.
fibulae occur, but in those of the
early classical period several varieties
are found, one of these from Camirus
has its bow ornamented with three
cubes alternating with two beads ;
the central cube has a knob attached'
(Fig. 117). Two others from
the same place have glass beads on
their bows. At Camirus was found
a little fibula with a bird on its
back ;
it is analogous to a well-known class of Italian fibulae
decorated with quadrupeds and birds. In some of the
Rhodian specimens the foot has grown into a flat oblong
plate often decorated with geometrical patterns and animals
incised"*.
An early electrum hecte of Phocaic standard (42 "2 grains)
in the possession of Canon Grecnwell shows on its obverse a
raised disc with a fibula similar to that fi'om Camirus ornamented
with bronze beads'' alternating with cubes. This type
therefore was probably in use in the sixth century'
ii.v.
In the Mycenean tombs of Attica no fibulae have been
found. Indeed no brooches of a date earlier than the geometrical
(Dipylon) period have as yet been discovered on Attic
soil.
Fibulae of the geometrical period have also been found at
Tlu'bes (Fig. 119), Olympia and occasionally in other ])arts of
Greece". (Fig. 118.)
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H. J!. Walters, Cat. nf l!niii:'>, I'l. xi. "2'). Tlic rev. of the coin has
an incuse containing; niaikini^s wliich assume something of the form of a
Maltese cross.
Xeitschrij't f. Ktlinol. ISS'.I, pp. 2'21 .-^jq.