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

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how it is that occasional hbulae are found in Mycenean remains,
which also yield objects of iron.
Let us now return to the fibulae with two or four discs
(class B). In Italy this type is almost exclusively met with in
the south, rarely in the central region, and never north of the
Apennines. It is however common in Greece and the other lands
to the east of the Adriatic and, as some four hundred of them
were found at Hallstatt, they are often termed the 'Hallstatt'
type. They are commonly held to be Greek rather than Italian.
But though this type is found in Greece, it is rash to say that it
is of Greek origin. For no bronze ornaments
consisting either of a single spiral
disc or of two or more such, out of which
the 'spectacle' fibula could have sprung,
have been found at Mycenae, Tiryns,
His.sarlik, in Attica, or Cyprus. On the
other hand in north Italy and the
])anubian region, not only are spiral
discs fornu'd of liammered wire such as
those found in the pile-dwelling of the
Alondsee in the district of Salzburg', a characteristic (Fig. 128),
but pairs of similar discs (Fig. 124) made of copper are
also well kn(nvn-: objects
of a similar kind
have been found at
(jrlasinatz and Jezerine'',
where, as we saw
(p. 4-:]7) tlie spectacle
tibuhi is of common
occurrence.
Again,
ornaments
consisting of four s|)iral
discs have been discoNd'ei
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