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)
that of No. 507, with the sole difference that it is here but single and
there treble.
[Illustration:
Nos. 507-512. Ornamented Gold Buttons. }
} Sepulchre I. Size 5:6.
" 513-518. Ornamented Gold Ribbons. }
]
Of the ten large cross-like buttons I give the engraving, under No. 500,
of the only new pattern. As with the cross-like buttons of the fourth
tomb, the wooden moulds, beneath the gold plates of the ten buttons
have exactly the same intaglio ornamentation which we see on the latter,
and there can consequently be no doubt that the intaglio work was made
when the gold plate was already fastened on the wooden buttons, and
that the engraving made on the former was reproduced on the latter by
the pressure of the artist's hand. The ornamentation of the cross-like
button, No. 500, is as follows: it has at each acute angle of the lozenge
three and at each obtuse angle two globular projections ornamented with
concentric circles, and in the interior lozenge two spirals in the form
of _omegas_ standing opposite each other; the four angles being filled up
by small circles.
[Sidenote: ORNAMENTED GOLD RIBBONS.]
Of the other cross-like buttons, not sufficiently different to require
engraving, we have the following patterns. One has at each angle three
globular projections, but the ornamentation consists solely of circles,
which stand together, forming flowers. On another large button there
are only two globular projections at each corner, and the lozenge has a
broad border filled with an uninterrupted row of small circles; in the
centre we see a double circle filled with spirals, of the form we have
so frequently passed in review; the remaining space in each acute angle
being filled up with an _omega_-like spiral and three small figures
similar to those in No. 501. Identical with this is the ornamentation
of another cross-like button, with the sole difference that its border
is wider and that, instead of the sign in No. 500, it has only one
small circle in each acute angle of the interior lozenge. I have no
observations to make on the other cross-buttons, for their patterns are
perfectly similar to those already represented.
In the same sepulchre I found the broad golden ribbons represented under
Nos. 513-518, with a magnificent ornamentation in _repoussé_ work.
There was also found a round gold plate, having in its centre a star,
surrounded by three concentric circles, a circular row of small spiral
ornaments, and a border of three circles. Also another double gold
plate, which has probably formed a cylinder.
[Illustration: No. 519. Golden Ornament of the Greaves. Sepulchre I. Size
10:13.]
[Illustration: Nos. 520-524. Bone Tubes and Buttons. Sepulchre I. Actual
size.]
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