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)
There were also found five large shield-like disks, and a small one, of
thin gold plate, with an ornamentation in _repoussé_ work, representing
in the centre a star, and around it, within a border of two double
circles of points, an ornamentation of spirals (see No. 481). Further,
two whorl-shaped, hollow objects of gold, which fit together, but whose
use is unknown to us. Perfectly similar objects have been represented
under Nos. 425 and 426.[365] Further, a fragmentary silver vase, with the
beautiful golden mouthpiece (No. 482) and the golden handle (No. 483);
both having an ornamentation of _repoussé_ work. In the mouthpiece we see
the six perforations by which it was fastened with pins to the neck of
the silver vase, of which we see a fragment still attached to the handle.
There were further found two fragmentary plain silver vases, of one of
which the lower half is preserved: also a fragmentary silver vase, with a
copper bottom and mouthpiece, which latter may have probably been plated
with gold. Also, a large fragmentary silver vase, with a _repoussé_ work
of spirals; and two large disks of copper, plated with silver, which
probably belong to silver vases.
[Illustration: No. 482. Golden Mouthpiece of a Vase. Sepulchre I. Size
5:7, about.]
[Illustration: No. 483.
Golden Vase-handle.
Sepulchre I. Actual size.]
From the same tomb came the small cylinder of gold plate (No. 484), which
is profusely covered with intaglio work, and still contains a piece of
charred wood, to which the cylinder was attached below with three gold
pins; one of these can still be seen to the right of the spectator. If
we look from the top of the cylinder downward, we see that its upper
part is divided by horizontal bands of three or four lines into four
compartments, of which the upper one has an ornamentation of small
concentric circles[366] the second of vertical strokes, the third again
of concentric circles, and the fourth of vertical strokes; on both sides
of this fourth compartment were golden pins, of which the one to the
right is still in its place. The space below is divided by vertical bands
into three compartments, of which those to the right and left are filled
with an ornamentation of spirals, and the middle one with a tree-like
band, from the top of which project, to the right and left, branch-like
spirals forming circles, in which we again see small spirals: the
remaining space is filled up with spirals and closely joined wedge-like
ornaments. Thus we see on this cylinder not the tenth part of an inch
unornamented.
[Illustration: No. 484.
A Cylinder of Gold Plate.
Sepulchre I. Actual size.]
[Sidenote: NUMEROUS GOLD BUTTONS.]
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