On the other side we have the family name of Ahmes and a series of full-blown flowers issuing one from another and diminishing towards the point.

A poignard found at Mycenae by Dr.Schliemann is similarly decorated; the Phoenicians, who were industrious copyists of Egyptian models, probably introduced this pattern into Greece.

The second poignard is of a make not uncommon to this day in Persia and India (fig.

305).

The blade is of yellowish bronze fixed into a disk-shaped hilt of silver.