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Chap. II.]
BRONZE OR COPPER INSTRUMENTS.
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Beït-Sahour, near Bethlehem in Palestine, and which are preserved in the Museum of Saint Germain-en-Laye. Some similar flint saws were also found in the very ancient grotto already mentioned, called "Grotta del Diavolo," near Bologna.[1] Several saws of silex, as well as knives of silex and obsidian, found at Warka and Mugheir in Assyria, are in the British Museum.

Of polishers of serpentine, jasper, diorite, or porphyry, a large number were again found in all the four lower prehistoric settlements of Troy.

Of bronze or copper, there were found in the débris of the first settlement only a knife, like that represented under No. 118, p. 250 in Ilios, some punches similar to those under Nos. 109 and 110, p. 249 in Ilios, and from twelve to fifteen brooches, some of which have a globular

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No. 12.—Brooch of Copper or Bronze, with a globular head. (Size 1:3. Depth, 14 m.)
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No. 13.—Brooch of Copper or Eronze, with a spiral head. (Size 1: 3. Depth, 14 m.)

head, others a head in the form of a spiral. I here give one of the former under No. 12, of the latter one under No. 13: both of them are bent at right angles. Both these forms of brooch served the ancient Trojan settlers instead of the fibula, which never occurs here in any one of the five prehistoric cities, nor in the Lydian city of Hissarlik, and which must have been invented at a much later period.[2] It deserves very particular attention, that

  1. ↑ Avv. Ulderigo Botti, La Grotta del Diavolo, Bologna, 1871, p. 36, and Plate III.
  2. ↑ A. Dumont and J. Chaplain (Les Céramiques de la Grèce Propre, Paris, 1881, p. 4) erroneously state that fibulae have been found in the first city of Troy; they must have mistaken for a fibula the small flat
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