While speaking of soldering, I may mention that Professor Landerer informs me that the Mycenean goldsmiths soldered gold with the help of borax (borate of soda), which is still used at the present day for the same purpose. He adds that he was lucky enough to discover this salt on the border of an ancient false medal from Ægina; that it was called in antiquity χρυσόκολλα ("gold cement"), and that it was imported from Persia and India under the name of _Baurac-Pounxa-Tinkal_. In the Middle Ages, it was imported by the Venetians from Persia to Venice, where it was purified and exported under the denomination of _Borax Venetus_. [Illustration: No. 339. A Golden Goblet with two handles (δεπας αμφικυπελλον). Sepulchre IV. Size 5:8 about.] [Illustration: No. 340. Golden Goblet with one handle. Sepulchre IV. Size 5:6, about.] [Illustration: No. 341. A Golden Wine-Flagon (οἰνοχόη). Sepulchre IV. Size 7:10.] [Sidenote: CURIOUS GOLDEN GOBLETS.] There were further found with the five bodies of this sepulchre nine vessels of gold; the first (No. 339) being a large massive golden goblet with two handles, and, therefore, an Homeric δέπας ἀμφικύπελλον; it has no ornamentation. The two golden goblets, one of which is shown (No. 340), are, as Professor A. Rousopoulos observed to me, of the pattern called in Greek αὐλακωτά ("furrowed"), each of them being encircled by nine parallel furrows; each has only one handle. Another gold vessel (No. 341) found in this sepulchre, is a beautiful _œnochoë_, with a large handle, and decorated in _repoussé_ work, with three parallel horizontal rows of spirals, united with each other and forming an interwoven ornamentation, which fills the whole body of the flagon with a net-work, and which, as Dr. Schlie remarked to me regarding the perfectly similar spiral net-work on the sepulchral _stêlé_ (No. 140)[312] is in principle the same as the filling up with frets or spirals combined horizontally and vertically. The foot of the _œnochoë_ is ornamented with small slanting strokes. I also found a gold goblet with one handle (No. 342), the body of which is encircled with a broad band of a plain ornamentation in _repoussé_ work, resembling blades of knives. Further, a plain massive golden goblet of a new shape (No. 343) having one handle, which, like all the other handles, is fastened to the vessel with gold nails with broad convex heads, which can be seen on the inner side of the rim. If we take away the handle, this goblet resembles our present water-glasses, but its cup is larger and its foot smaller. [Illustration: No. 342. A Golden Cup. Sepulchre IV. Size 4:5.] [Illustration: No. 343. A plain massive Cup of Gold. Sepulchre IV. Size 2:5, about.] [Illustration: No. 344. A large massive Gold Goblet with two handles (δέπας ἀμφικύπελλον), weighing 4 lbs. troy. Sepulchre IV. Half-size.]