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 No. 487, we see in the centre two spirals standing opposite
each other, and surrounded by five concentric circles, then by an
ornamentation of four signs in the form of a cornucopia, and by four
circles, which form the border. In the following button (No. 488) we
see in the middle a figure approaching the oval form, within which are
spirals impossible to describe, the remaining space being filled up by a
small border and a large number of curved lines and two signs resembling
hand-saws, with handles of a spiral form. In No. 490, we see around
the central circle two borders, of which the outer one is filled with
a circular row of double circles, the inner one with a circular row of
signs resembling a sling with a stone in it. The ornamentation of No. 491
is very beautiful, but I find it impossible to describe. As to the gold
buttons of the second size, the only new pattern I found is No. 489; it
represents in the centre a beautiful spiral in the shape of a coiled-up
serpent, whose head is distinctly visible; around it are three concentric
circles, and a border filled up with an ornamentation resembling a row of
figs.
[Illustration: Nos. 487-491. Ornamented Gold Buttons. Sepulchre I. Actual
size.]
[Illustration: Nos. 492-506. Ornamented Gold Buttons. Sepulchre I. Actual
size.]
Of the small buttons, I represent the new types under Nos. 492-499 and
501-512. I have added a couple of those whose patterns the reader has
seen before, because of superior beauty. In No. 492 we see, within
a small border of two circles, a flower-like ornament, with three
inner and three outer circles; in No. 493, within a border with round
or square signs, a spiral in the form of a serpent; in No. 494, two
concentric denticulated circles; in No. 495, a spiral ornament, which
very frequently occurs both here and at Troy; in No. 496, we see two
concentric circles of small triangles; in No. 497, we again see a flower.
No. 498 is a massive gold button, and represents a beautiful flower; it
is perforated, and it may be that it never served as a button, but as a
lid of a small golden can or bottle. In No. 499, we recognise the shape
of a beautiful flower with two denticulated circles; No. 501 represents
the very same ornament as No. 495; No. 502 and No. 503 represent flowers.
The ornamentation of No. 504 is difficult to describe; if we turn the
figure to the right it resembles the bust of a man; in No. 505, we
see two spirals of a new shape; in No. 506 again a flower. No. 507
exhibits a treble 卐, with the arms converted into spirals, each of them
terminating in a round point, which is joined by a stroke to the usual
points, the marks of the four nails. No. 508 has no other ornament than
four concentric circles; in No. 509, we see only a single 卐, with curved
arms and the marks of the four nails; No. 510 exhibits an ornamentation
resembling three knives with handles in the form of spirals; No. 511 is
identical with No. 501; and finally No. 512 shows us a figure similar to
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