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of interest from this site is a pair of tweezers (Fig.82), of which several Bronze Age examples are known.1

Among the later bronzes are two or three examples of good Greek work, especially the archaic statuette from tomb 73.2 It represents a female figure (Fig.83) holding out a fruit in her right hand and drawing aside her skirt with the left, in what is known as the "Spes" attitude.3 Her hair is looped up with a fillet, and she wears chiton and himation. The style is that of the 6th century B.C. It is somewhat dry and stiff, like Etruscan work, but the conception is graceful and the details very carefully rendered. The figure has formed part of a candelabrum, of which a spike remains on the top of the head. There are also two mirror-handles with reliefs4 which, like the statuette, have close affinities with Etruscan work in bronze. One (Fig.84) is from tomb 10 and is ornamented with an archaic Gorgoneion and palmette above; a similar example, found in Poli in 1890, is now in the British Museum.5 The other (Fig.85), from tomb 78, has the design of a Siren in relief to the front, with wings spread. It dates from the end of the 5th century B.C. A few smaller objects, also worth noting, are illustrated in Figs.86-91; they are nearly all from tomb 73.

Among the characteristically local bronzes were several interesting fibulae, forming a representative series of the different types found in Cyprus. Two are especially remarkable as having been found in tombs on the Bronze Age site. Of these, however, only the one from tomb 102 (Fig.92) is a certain instance, being found with Mycenean vases and no later objects; whereas the other (Fig.93) comes from tomb 98, which had been used more than once, and contained an admixture of objects belonging to the 6th and 7th centuries B.C. These two are both of the same shape, roughly quadrilateral, curving towards the head, and answer to type (i) of Myres' classification.7

1One was found at Agia Paraskevi (O.-Richter, Kypros,Pl.146, Fig.6b), another at Assarlik in Caria (Brit.Mus.Cat.of Bronzes, No.117), and a silver specimen by Schliemann at Mycenae (Schliemann,Mycenae,p.308,Fig.469). 2Brit.Mus.Cat.of Bronzes,No.193. 3Ibid. p.xlii. 4Ibid.Nos.245,246. 5Journ.Hell.Stud.xii,p.323. 6A similar mirror handle, with an Eros, now in Berlin, is figured by O.-Richter,Kypros,Pl.198,Fig.I;see also Jahrbuch d.arch.Inst.iii(1888),p.246. 7Cyprus Mus.Cat.p.138; another fibula of the same type, but of gold, from the Bronze Age cemetery of Zarukas, near Maroni, is now in the British Museum (Journ.Hell.Stud.xvii.p.63). Two more gold specimens of this type, from Kourion, are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, but these were found with sub-Mycenean pottery, and need not be dated earlier than the seventh century. Further, two bronze fibulae which were found at Enkomi in 1896, with Mycenean pottery, show that the earliest form of Cypriote fibula is developed from the simple safety pin type, both being quite flat, and shows an earlier stage than the other (from tomb 38 is quite flat, and shows an intermediate form between the simplest type and the type (i) of Myres' classification; see for these fibulae, p.16 supra. On the subject of the earliest appearance of fibulae in Cyprus and Greece, see Brit.Mus.Cat. of Bronzes,Introd.p.lx and Nos.57,59; O.-Richter,Kypros,p.466;Ephem.Archaeol.1888,Pl.9,Fig.2,p.167;and Athen. Mitteil.xii.(1887),p.8 ff.