Αὐτὸς νῦν ἴδε πῶμα, θοῶς δ᾽ ἐπὶ δεσμὸν ἴηλον, μήτις τοι καθ᾽ ὁδὸν δηλήσεται, ὁππότ᾽ ἂν αὖτε εὕδῃσθα γλυκὺν ὑπνον, ἰὼν ἐν νηῒ μελαίνῃ. [299] _Ib._ 446-448:-- Αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ τόγ᾽ ἄκουσε πολύτλᾳς δῖος ᾽Οδυσσεύς, αὐτίκ᾽ ἐπήρτυε πῶμα, θοῶς δ᾽ ἐπὶ δεσμὸν ἴηλεν ποικίλον, ὅν ποτέ μιν δέεδαε φρεσὶ πότνια Κίρκη. In _Od._ II. 354, Telemachus, preparing for his voyage to Sparta, bids his nurse Euryclea to fill twelve amphoræ with wine and fit them all with lids, but these would need to be very close-fitting for liquids (cf. p. 256): Δώδεκα δ᾽ ἔμπλησον, καὶ πώμασιν ἄρσον ἃπαντας. [300] See my 'Troy and its Remains,' p. 286, No. 200, p. 310, Nos. 222 and 223, and Plate XVII. Nos. 243 and 244. [Illustration: No. 326. Golden Mask in the form of a Lion's Head. Sepulchre IV. Size 3/10, about.] CHAPTER VIII. THE FOURTH TOMB IN THE ACROPOLIS OF MYCENÆ. Further search within the Agora, without the guide of tombstones--Discovery of an altar of Cyclopean masonry, over the centre of the great _Fourth Tomb_, containing the bodies of five men, burnt where they lay, laden with jewels, and covered with a layer of white clay--Objects found--Copper caldrons, one containing 100 gold-plated buttons with intaglio work--Homeric mention of caldrons--A silver cow's head with gold horns and a gold sun on its forehead: it represents Hera--Cow-heads with axes--Swords and lances of bronze--Gold-plated wooden sword-sheaths and hilts with gold pins--Three masks of gold covering the faces of the bodies--A fourth mask, representing a lion's head--Two seal-rings and a bracelet, with ornaments--The state of art corresponds with that described in Homer--Golden breastplates on two of the bodies--Golden crown by the head of another--Golden ornament of the greaves--Borax used then, as now, for soldering gold--More than one δέπας ἀμφικύπελλον, and other vessels of gold and silver--The large gold goblet, with doves on the two handles, like Nestor's cup in the _Iliad_--Two-handled terra-cotta vases, hand-made, like those at Troy--Ornaments of alabaster--Gold shoulder-belts (τελαμῶνες)--Other objects found in the tomb, of rock crystal, amber, alabaster--Golden diadems, some seemingly for children; also a child's belt and frontlet, or "belle Hélène," and other ornaments of gold--Double edged battle-axes--their use by the Greeks as a symbol, especially at Tenedos--A funeral fork of copper--Vase-lids of bone--Vessel of silver and lead in shape of an animal--Buttons of wood, plated with gold, splendidly ornamented--Their patterns and workmanship--Hundreds of gold flowers, plain buttons, and other ornaments of gold--Larger gold buttons splendidly ornamented--Leaves of gold strewn under, over, and around the bodies--Wooden comb with gold handle--Gold models of temples--Many golden cuttle-fish--Gold knobs for