[211] See Nos. 159, 160, and the coloured Plate D, figs. n, o, p. [212] See 'Troy and its Remains,' p. 294. [213] I call particular attention to the Egyptian sepulchral paintings published by Mr. G. A. Hoskins in his 'Travels in Ethiopia and Upper Egypt,' where we see among the offerings some vases from which similar heads look out. [214] See p. 76. [215] See p. 75. [216] See under No. 120, p. 74. [217] See under No. 120, p. 74. [218] _Ibid._ [219] Also engraved under No. 120. I here again call particular attention to the fact, _that the depth in which each object has been found is always marked in metres below each object in the engravings_. [220] See the Coloured Plate B, fig. g. [221] See Nos. 83, 84, 88, pp. 70, 71. [222] See 'Troy and its Remains,' p. 158. [223] _Hist. Animal._ IX. 40. [224] See _Od._ III. 41, 46, 50 and 63, and XXII. 9, 10, 86. [225] Δειπνοσοφισταί, 783. [226] See Vignette to Chapter V. p. 118. [Illustration: No. 191. The Village of Charvati, with the ancient Quarry of Mycenæ.] CHAPTER V. EXCAVATIONS IN AND NEAR THE ACROPOLIS--_continued_. THE LIONS' GATE AND THE AGORA. The Treasury excavated by Mrs. Schliemann--Older and less sumptuous than that of Atreus--The entrance, its ornaments--Archaic pottery found in the passage--Necklace beads--Fragment of a marble frieze--Threshold of the Lions' Gate--The great double row of parallel slabs, probably not of a remote antiquity--The Acropolis only partly accessible to chariots--The gateway double, like the Scæan Gate at Troy--Corridors of Cyclopean house-walls--Hera-idols and arrow-heads of bronze and iron--Door-keeper's lodge--Retaining walls--Tower of the Acropolis resting on a massive wall--The double circle of slabs formed the enclosure of the royal tombs and the Agora--Arguments in proof of this view--Objects of interest found there--A vast Cyclopean house with cisterns and water conduit, probably the ancient Royal Palace--The spring Perseia--No windows in the house--Objects of art and luxury found there--An onyx seal-ring--Vase-paintings of mail-clad warriors--Hand-made pottery in the Acropolis. Mycenæ, Sept. 30, 1876. * * * * * Since the 9th inst. I have continued the excavations with the greatest energy, employing constantly 125 workmen and five horse-carts, and the weather being beautiful I have made excellent progress. In the Treasury, in which Mrs. Schliemann is excavating, we work with thirty labourers and two horse-carts, and find the very greatest difficulty in removing the hundreds of huge wrought stones which have fallen from the vault. [Sidenote: MRS. SCHLIEMANN'S TREASURY.]