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 WEAPONS. (Fig. 71), as well as several arrow-heads and two axes; one of the latter is double (Fig. 358) and ends in a large ball which could serve on occasion as a mace. The other axe is much simpler ; it is shaped like a prehistoric celt (Fig. 359). These fragments had already entered the cabinet of the Due de Luynes when M. Guillaume Rey brought back to France some remains of a shield that had belonged to the same find (Fig. 360). Thanks to its circular shape it can be easily restored. Its decoration is entirely geometrical, and so is that of a buckler found at Caere, in Etruria, in a tomb which has yielded many Phoenician cups and FlG. 359. Axe. Length '6 inches. French National Library. bowls. The workmanship is very careful, but the whole decora- tion consists of elementary combinations of straight and curved lines. Upon another example of the same size the ornament is slightly more complicated (Fig. 362). The same rosette oc- cupies the centre, but on several of the bands there are running bulls, and, on one, lotus flowers. In minor things, too, this shield is rather more elaborate than the other. At the outer edge runs a cable pattern which is repeated in exactly the same place in a more artistic shield from Cyprus (Fig. 363). This latter comes from the tomb at Amathus in which the patera figured above (Fig. 271) was found. On that platter a shield like this VOL. II. 3 H