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brooch (περόνη) like the Doric chiton, while about the waist was worn a girdle. But Mycenaean monuments (the two gold signets and the stone tablet from Mycenae, the engraved gem from Vaphio) show a dress tightly fitting the upper portion of the body (fig. 44) and trimmed below the waist with flounces. It is likely that the body of the garment was buttoned.[1]
Fig. 44.Gold Signet from Mycenae
Although Schliemann found no trace of brooches in the shaft-graves at Mycenae, yet the discovery by the Greek Archaeological Society of three kinds of brooches in the lower town may indicate that the transition from the older dress seen on the monuments to the garment fastened by the fibula occurred during Mycenaean times.
- ↑ Tsountas (op. cit. p. 63.) suggests that several of the so-called spindle whorls on account of their small size and frequent occurence are to be regarded as buttons.
