Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and TirynsSchliemann, Heinrich
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Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns
Schliemann, Heinrich
Mycenae (Extinct city); Tiryns (Extinct city)
With the five bodies of the fourth tomb was further found the beautiful
heavy massive silver goblet (No. 348) which is exceedingly well
preserved, and has only one handle, in the form of the golden handle
of the cup No. 346. This handle is fastened to the rim and body of the
goblet by four gold nails having large round flat heads. The piece of
metal, which we see on the body of the vessel, was accidentally soldered
to it by the fire of the funeral pile, and does not belong to it. The
whole body was plated with copper, and this plating was again plated with
gold, and the gold was covered with a splendid ornamentation of intaglio
work, which seems to be very well preserved, but only very little of it
can be seen, on account of the dirt with which the goblet is covered. Mr.
A. Postolaccas reminds me that the spiral band, of which a small part is
visible in the engraving, is also found on the medals of Tarentum, and
represents there the waves of the sea.
[Illustration: Nos. 350, 351. Objects of Egyptian Porcelain, of unknown
use. Sepulchre IV. Size 2:5.]
[Sidenote: OBJECTS OF EGYPTIAN PORCELAIN.]
There were further found in the same tomb three hand-made terra-cotta
vases with two handles, one of which is represented (No. 349); this
form is very common in Troy, but it is very often set on three small
feet.[317]
[Illustration: No. 352. Model of a sort of scarf tied in a noose.
Egyptian porcelain. Sepulchre IV. Size 2:3, about.]
I also found the two objects (Nos. 350 and 351) which Mr. Newton holds
to be of Egyptian porcelain; their use is altogether unknown to me. The
smaller piece has an ornamentation of white and black parallel lines;
the other has, on a dead green ground, parallel bands of four white
lines, which cross each other so as to form a number of small squares.
The lower part of No. 351 has an impressed ornamentation, representing
tassels painted black, in each of which we see a noose perfectly similar
in form to the object represented in No. 352, which is also of Egyptian
porcelain. The perforations show this object to have been an ornament
nailed on something else. These scarfs also have, on a light-green dead
ground, an ornamentation, now nearly obliterated, of parallel bands of
two white lines, which cross each other at right angles and form small
squares. At the lower end of the front piece of both are represented
tassels in very low relief, which are painted black. Both these objects
can be nothing else than ornaments, but the question is how they have
been used as such.[318]
[Illustration: No. 353. A Silver Flagon (οἰνοχόη). Sepulchre IV.
Nearly half-size.]
[Sidenote: SILVER WINE-FLAGON.]
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