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 Primitive Gkeicce : Mycenian Akt. Advance is still more marked in the daggers ; with them imitation has totally disappeared. The better class were supplied with bone or ivory handles (Figs. 368, 502), and the most common with a wooden mount. There are no swords in the beginning of the period, whether on continental Hellas, or in the oldest graves of the Cyclades and Cyprus.' The lances and daggers approach very nearly those that have been dug up at Troy. Swords are double-edged, and make their appearance at Mycena:.'-' One was brought out of the ruins of a house situated north-east of the Lions Gate (Fig. 542).* The blade, which is in good condition, in length from eighty to ninety centimetres, ' ScHLitMANN, MyceiiiC. ^ Jbiii.