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=== Lemnos === In August and September 1926, members of the Italian School of Archaeology conducted trial excavations on the island of [[Lemnos]]. A short account of their excavations appeared in the ''Messager d'Athènes'' for 3 January 1927. The overall purpose of the excavations was to shed light on the island's "Etrusco-Pelasgian" civilization. The excavations were conducted on the site of the city of Hephaisteia (i.e.,{{nbs}}Palaiopolis) where the Pelasgians, according to Herodotus, surrendered to [[Miltiades the Younger|Miltiades]] of Athens. There, a necropolis ({{c.|9th–8th centuries BC}}) was discovered revealing bronze objects, pots, and more than 130 [[ossuaries]]. The ossuaries contained distinctly male and female funeral ornaments. Male ossuaries contained knives and axes whereas female ossuaries contained earrings, bronze pins, necklaces, gold [[diadem]]s, and bracelets. The decorations on some of the gold objects contained spirals of Mycenean origin, but had no Geometric forms. According to their ornamentation, the pots discovered at the site were from the Geometric period. However, the pots also preserved spirals indicative of Mycenean art. The results of the excavations indicate that the Early Iron Age inhabitants of Lemnos could be a remnant of a Mycenaean population and, in addition, the earliest attested reference to Lemnos is the [[Mycenaean Greek]] ''ra-mi-ni-ja'', "Lemnian woman", written in [[Linear B]] syllabic script.<ref>{{Citation |title=Palaeolexicon: The Linear B word ra-mi-ni-ja |url=http://www.palaeolexicon.com/ShowWord.aspx?Id=16906}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Heffner|1927|pp=123–124}}.</ref>{{r|group=Note|b}}
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