There were also found in this tomb the objects shown in the following cut. Nos. 373 and 374 are of bone and have the same shape. Both have on one side a carved ornamentation of spirals, a border, and two or three concentric circles, and two perforations; in the centre there seems to have been a knob, which is broken off. On the reverse side, in the border, are three protruding cones in the form of feet. I represent in the engraving the upper end of one of these objects, and the reverse side of the other. The use of them would be almost impossible to explain had I not found similar ones, but of terra-cotta, and with four feet of conical shape, in Troy, and one of them still _in situ_, as a lid on the mouth of a large can or jar. The two perforations served to fasten the lid with a string to the jars.[327] Four such vase-lids of bone were found in this tomb. [Illustration: Nos. 373-375. Two Bone Lids of Jars and a piece of an Alabaster Vase. Sepulchre IV. Size 5:6.] No. 375 represents a fragment of an alabaster vase, on which a beautiful ornamentation is carved, displaying, between two parallel stripes, a row of spirals, and, below, a row of vertical flutings. [Illustration: No. 376. A Stag, of an alloy of silver and lead. Sepulchre IV. Size 3:7, about.] [Sidenote: STAG OF SILVER AND LEAD.] In a copper vessel in the south-eastern corner of this sepulchre was found the animal represented under No. 376, which Professor Landerer has found to consist of a mixture of two-thirds silver and one-third lead. It is hollow, and seems to have served as a vase, the mouth-piece, in the form of a funnel, being on the back. The whole body of the animal is very coarse and heavy, particularly the feet, which resemble the feet of a buffalo, but the head resembles a cow's-head. As, however, the head is crowned with two stag-horns, of which one is preserved, there can be no doubt that the artist intended to represent a stag. He may be excused for having made the animal so coarse, because had he given exactly the form of a stag, the vase he intended to make would have been too fragile. Vases of terra-cotta in the form of animals were frequent at Troy.[328] [Illustration: Nos. 377-381. Buttons of Wood, covered with plates of gold, highly ornamented. Sepulchre IV. Actual size.] [Illustration: Nos. 382-386. Buttons of Wood, covered with plates of gold, highly ornamented. Sepulchre IV. Actual size.] [Sidenote: WONDERFUL CROSS-BUTTONS.]