PEABODY— COLLECTION OF BRONZES 



Fig. i 8. — Palstave of iron with a quadrangular blade and side 

 wings curving inward on both faces; a rare form. 



Vide Montelius, Ser. B, pi. 89, 2 (unilateral). 

 Length, 12.5 cm. 

 Museum no. 83597. 



Fig. 19. — Sheath of bronze, made of a thin sheet bent and rolled 

 over, and decorated with dots and concentric circles in intaglio. The 

 point is finished in a double recurving motive. 



Vide Montelius, Ser. B, 59, 12. 

 Length, 23 cm. 

 Museum no. 83499. 



Fig. 20. — "Baton" of bronze. This is a rolled sheet, perhaps 

 formerly containing wood, ornamented with circular transversals; one 

 end is broken. (Were these symbols of authority? One thinks of the 

 discussion about the batons de commandement of Magdalenian times.) 



Vide Montelius, Ser. B, pi. 54, i2,andColini, 1 p. 204, pi. VI, 4 (Civitavecchia). 

 Length, 25.5 cm. 

 Museum no. 83533. 



Plate III 



Fig. 1. — Flat design in bronze in "contours decoupes" represent- 

 ing a pair of human legs with a fringe (?) of clothing; a ring is inserted 

 as if for suspension. The placing of the ring is, however, doubtful. 

 There are small knobs on the surface which perhaps covered minute 

 rivets, and the whole fragment may be part of a human figure 

 "applique" on a bronze situla or other large vessel. 



Length, 9 cm. 

 Museum no. 83445. 



Fig. 2. — A series of beads in glass and amber of various shapes. 

 The glass, with one exception, is dark-blue, and nearly all of the 

 glass beads have an uncommon form: a cylinder with excrescences 

 about the middle and expansions at both ends. (There are other beads 

 in the collection, of shell and bronze and some made perhaps of minute 

 pebbles.) 



Cf. v. Sacken, pi. xvin, 2 (blue glass). 

 Diameter of the largest bead, 1.2 cm. 

 Museum no. 83723. 



BELTS 



Fig. 3. — A fragment of a bronze belt made of plates riveted 

 together. Designs of great beauty are often scratched on the belts. 



1 Bollettino di Paletnologia Ilaliana, 1909. 

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