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 Weapons and Tools. 453 has a vertical rib down the middle. The broad guard terminating the handle was an admirable protection for the hand ; in it are holes for the nails, which served to fix it to the blade. To judge from the objects found in the grave, this sword appears to belong to the end of the Mycenian period, and would thus represent its last phase. The Thera specimen, with its elegant decoration, cannot be much older.' The Mycenae spear, like the lance of the Homeric heroes (Fig. 543), is provided with a socket, into which was fixed the shaft, As to daggers, quite a goodly crop ' For fuller details upon the bronze swords in question, see Untiskt, Die HlltUtn Sehutrtformen.