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)
In this tomb, as well as in the four others, were found many fragments
of that kind of terra-cotta goblet which maintained its form here for
more than 1,000 years without any modification; only its colour and
mode of fabrication varied, for, while in the sepulchres we find it of
a light green colour with a beautiful black spiral ornamentation, we
find it afterwards of a plain light green colour, but still hand-made.
In later times we find it either of a uniform lustrous plain dark red
colour or of a light yellow dead colour with numerous dark red and black
bands, as shown in previous illustrations.[346] In still later times we
find it with no other colour than the light yellow or white of the clay
itself.[347] Goblets of this latter sort must have been in use here for
a great number of centuries and until the capture of the city, because
their fragments are found in enormous quantities, and of their feet I
could have collected thousands of specimens. We have also a number of
specimens of this goblet in gold, such as that shown under No. 343.[348]
In Troy I found this very same form of goblet in the first and most
ancient of the prehistoric cities, at a depth of about 50 ft.[349]
As a specimen of the only other type of terra-cotta goblet I refer the
reader to one already mentioned as found in the first tomb.[350] It
represents the lower part of a large hand-made lustrous black goblet,
with a hollow foot and horizontal flutings in the middle. But fragments
of this sort of goblets were found also in the four other sepulchres.
This form of goblet is very rarely found outside of the tombs, and only
here and there in the lowest strata. But I found it in the ruins of the
most ancient prehistoric city at Troy.
In this fourth tomb were found two whetstones of fine hard sandstone.
Both have at the top a perforation for suspension with a string.
[Sidenote: GOLDEN DRAGON, WITH CRYSTAL SCALES.]
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