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 I20 Primitive Greece: Mvcenian Art. wood or cardboard {Fig. 4). Saws are of two kinds : double-edged, with handle at the base, and saws with teeth on one side only, the other being inserted into a handle of wood or deer-horn secured with pitch, traces of which are still visible on one or two speci- mens. They are found in certain sepultures of the islands.' These saws, with their very regular teeth, are manifestly relics of a very early style of implements ; but when discovered in a Three-ciglilhs of acluni si country like Greece, they should be examined with the minutest care before pronouncing on their age. In certain parts of Greece, Epirus, Thessaly, and Albania, the peasantry still uses, to thrash out the corn, an implement called aXmvtirr^a, the " tribulum " of the Latins. It consists of a tri- angular board, provided on its lower face with pointed flakes or flints, in length about one centimetre and one centimetre across. Upon this plank, drawn by a single horse, stands the conductor. ' ScHLiEMANN, I/t'os. M. Flinders Petrie lately discovered in the town of Kahan, formerly inhabited by workmen who built the lllahun pyramid, a sickle with wooden handle, wherein blades of this kind were fixed, with mastic, to the curved edge of the tool ; a number of these flint fragments still adhered to the wood,