A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . keted hoe closely resembles examples from Cyprus(Case .J) and S. Eussia (Case H); and a number of arrow-headsfrom Naucratis, which was founded in the seventh century b.c,belong to the time when iron was in common use. MESOPOTAMIA 127 Case E. On the West side of this Case, besides the Chinese antiquitiesalready dealt with in connection with Siberia (p. 107), are a fewobjects of importance from Mesopotamia, Persia, and India, to theright. In Babylonia the copper implements (axes, lance-heads, &c.
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A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . keted hoe closely resembles examples from Cyprus(Case .J) and S. Eussia (Case H); and a number of arrow-headsfrom Naucratis, which was founded in the seventh century b.c, belong to the time when iron was in common use. MESOPOTAMIA 127 Case E. On the West side of this Case, besides the Chinese antiquitiesalready dealt with in connection with Siberia (p. 107), are a fewobjects of importance from Mesopotamia, Persia, and India, to theright. In Babylonia the copper implements (axes, lance-heads, &c.) ofTello go back probably beyond 4000 b.c, the bronze vase of thetime_ of Ur Gur (about 2500) and the bronze statuette of Gudeaproving the extreme antiquity of copper, and showing that bronze-working cannot have been introduced very much later than 3000B.C. (pp. 9 and 118). The discoveries in graves at Mukayyar andWarka (the Biblical Ur of the Chaldees and Erech respectively)throw further light upon metallurgical knowledge at a periodestimated between 2500 and 1000 b.o. The graves contained. Fig. 123.—Axe-head, knife, and hoe, Tell Sifr, Mesopotamia. weapons of stone, coppei-, and bronze; and in some of the latest, ironappears, but is only used for ornamental purposes: lead and goldalso occurred in these tombs, but no silver. At Tell Sifr, northof Mukayyar, between the Tigris and the Euphrates, a number ofcopper or bronze implements and weapons have been excavated.They include axes and adzes with shaft-holes at one end, semi-circular tools split at the butt, straight daggers with riveted tangs, and curved knives ; one of the latter on analysis proved to containno tin. These objects, some of which are in the collection(tig. 123), are said to have been all found together, and are con-jectured to date, if not from the first half of the second millennium, at least from between 1500 and 1000 B.C., a period towards theclose of which iron was coming into use. That iron was notgenera