Artifact | 
panArchaeologists find an anomalous artifact while excavating a Mycenean tomb.
There is a decent hard SF story struggling to get out of this 1985 novel but in the first and last thirds it is buried beneath the author's near-racist attitudes to his Greek characters (males are sleazy, both sexes are sadistically violent) and the pages and pages of physical description of the main female character.
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