I also picked up there the two objects, Nos. 309 and 310, which appear to be sceptres. The silver staff of each has been plated with gold, as we see on that part of it which sticks in the beautifully-turned knobs of rock crystal. The crystal ball of No. 309 is ornamented with small vertical furrows and quite perforated, and there are evident signs that another object, probably of gold, has been attached to its lower end; and such a piece of gold was found lying separately and is added in the engraving (_a_), the more so as its upper end had evidently been broken off; it is ornamented on both sides with _repoussé_ work representing lions. [Illustration: Nos. 309, 310. Sceptres of silver plated with gold, with handles of rock-crystal. Sepulchre III. Size 1:3, about. _a._ A ball of gold found separately, but belonging to the handle.] I call the reader's attention to the size of these presumed sceptres, which is here only about one-third of the actual size. I beg further to observe that the enormous gold plated silver rods were doubtless stuck in wooden staves covered with gold plate. For the abundance here of such staves with gold covers we can have no better testimony than the numerous tubes of gold plate found in these tombs, many of them still containing charred remnants of the wood which they once covered; a few even contained remnants of the wood pretty well preserved. Further I found fifteen perforated beads of brown agate, like No. 311, which evidently belong to a necklace; also a number of beads like No. 312: further the magnificent lentoid gem of sardonyx (No. 313), on which are represented two men, the one sitting, the other standing. The latter seems to seize the former with his right hand by the hair, while he thrusts with his left a long sword into his breast. Very characteristic is the immense shield which we see on the standing man's back, and which resembles two shields joined at the border; it is not unlike the shield which we see on the fallen warrior, p. 174, No. 254. No. 314 is a whorl-like ornament of black agate, with a spiral ornamentation on its lower side; it has no perforation. [Illustration: No. 311. Perforated bead of brown agate.--No. 312. Agate bead.--No. 313. Lentoid gem of sardonyx, cut in intaglio.--No. 314. Ornament of black agate.--No. 315. Lentoid gem of amethyst. All from Sepulchre III. Actual Size.] Very curious is the lentoid gem of amethyst, No. 315, which is of a transparent violet-blue colour, with an intaglio, representing an animal turning round its head to look at its calf, which is sucking the milk from its udders. The body and legs of the animal, and even its head and horns, are decidedly those of a stag; but I may remind the reader that the most ancient didrachms of Corcyra represent in a similar style a cow turning her head and looking at her calf, which sucks the milk from her udders. [Sidenote: ORNAMENTED GOLDEN WHEELS.]