13 kg. of bronze).” The tablet was found in the “Armoury” at Knossos, not far from
“the charred remains of two wooden boxes containing carbonized arrow-shafts and
arrowheads.”
79 See Ventris and Chadwick 1973, p. 357. This tablet is no. 257 in Ventris and
Chadwick’s edition, and Jn09 [+829] in Emmett Bennett’s original designation. In
personal correspondence (December 3, 2015) Thomas Palaima informs me that
Ventris and Chadwick’s translation of ka-ko na-wi-joas “bronze for ships” should
be replaced by “bronze for temples.”
80 Palaima 2010, p. 367, using the average 1.5 g weight of the thin arrowheads found at
Knossos and other sites, and the 350 g weight for the massive spearheads found
in the Shaft Graves.
81 Buchholz 2010, p. 234:Die Herstellung von Bogen kommt bei Homer nicht vor. Die mykenische
Palastverwaltung hielt aber dieses Handwerk gemass seiner Nennung im Archiv
von Pylos unter staatlicher Kontrolle. To-ko-so-wo-kowird von den Entzifferern
auf toxo-worgoi, τοξοποιοί bezogen. Das zugrunde liegende, wohl altiranische
Fremdwort τόξον war bereits der griechischen Sprache mykenischer Zeit und
danach dem frühgriechischen Epos vertraut.”82 Sauzeau 2002. At p. 301, following an argument put forward by Bernard Sergent,
Sauzeau suggests that,
le statut de l’arc en tant qu’arme de guerre constitue au sein du monde i.e. [indo-
européen] une sorte de ligne de demarcation qui sépare les Celtes, les Germains,
les Italiques etc. des Indo-Iraniens. La Grèce—où l’arc de guerre est discrédité—
est fondamentalement du côté des Occidenentaux, mais, notre dossier la prouve,
fonctionne comme une ‘plaque tournante’ entre les deux espaces. D’où l’extrême
ambiguité de l’arc épique.
83 On the problems with Lorimer’s argument, and on the conclusions of McLeod 1966
see Drews 1988, pp. 167–170 and especially fn. 59. Georganas 2010, p. 308, has only
one sentence on LH bows.
84 For a re-dating of two of the Mc tablets from Knossos see Killen 2008.
85 For an excellent discussion of the differences between a self bow and a composite
bow, with good illustrations, see Cotterell 2004, pp. 58–65.
86 On the relation of the Greek to the Indo-Iranian words, and their association with
poison, see Sauzeau 2002, pp. 290–292.
87 Reboreda Morillo 1996, p. 12.
88 Reboreda Morillo 1996, pp. 12–13.
89 Molloy 2010, Fig. 19.
90 Kasimi-Soutou 1986, pp. 91–94, with Fig. 3.
91 See Sandars 1961, Plate 17, no. 2.
92 Schofield 2007, pp. 58–59.
93 The grave, described as a Shaft Grave, was discovered by Jack Davis and Sharon
Stocker on May 18, 2015.
94 Although swords have usually been published more quickly than spears in the
indispensable Prähistorische Bronzefundeseries, that has not happened for the Pelo -
ponnesos. We have Imma Kilian-Dirlmeier’s catalogue of swords from elsewhere in
the Aegean, but her assignment did not include the several hundred swords of the
Peloponnesos. Those were to have been catalogued by Yannis Sakellarakis, but
Sakellarakis died before completing the catalogue.
95 Harrell 2014, pp. 49–50.212 Militarism in Greece