Perhaps still more important and interesting than all the jewels found in this tomb was a small quadrangular wooden box (νάρθηξ), of which I picked up two sides, on each of which are carved in relief a lion and a dog. Small as these sculptures are, they are nevertheless of capital interest to science, because they prove to us that the art of carving in wood flourished in the mythic heroic age. When first taken out of the grave all this wood was moist and soft like a sponge, but it is now dry, and I hope that with proper care it can be preserved. There were also found many larger and smaller pieces of cork, several of them with a curved border, from which I conclude that all must have belonged to shields; otherwise their use is quite inexplicable. Food seems also to have been deposited with the three bodies of this tomb, for I gathered in it a large quantity of oyster-shells, and among them several unopened oysters. A very large number of boars' teeth were also found. FOOTNOTES: [351] See the opening scene of the _Agamemnon_ of Æschylus. [352] See No. 441, p. 279. [353] See 'Troy and its Remains,' p. 35, No. 13; p. 106, No. 70; p. 307, No. 219. [354] I think it my duty to state here that the Archæological Society in Athens has alone incurred all the trouble and expense of _drugging_ the body so as to render it hard and solid, and raising it from the sepulchre and carrying it to the village of Charvati, and that I have had no trouble or expense from this operation. [355] See p. 305. [356] See p. 253. [357] See p. 311. [358] See 'Troy and its Remains,' pp. 330, 331. [359] Homer's βοῶπις πότνια ῞Ἡρη, "our lady Hera with the head of a cow;" hence "cow-faced;" and then, with large eyes like a cow, or "ox-eyed." (See Note at the end of Chapter I.) [360] _Il._ III. 144. [361] See Vignette to Chapter X., p. 333. [362] See Vignette to this Chapter, p. 289. [363] "There is nothing new under the sun." [364] See 'Troy and its Remains,' Plate XXIV. Nos. 348, 350, 351. [365] See p. 268. [366] Owing to the ashes and smoke with which the cylinder is covered, the upper row of circles did not appear in the photograph. [Illustration: No. 473. Massive Golden Mask of the body at the north end of the First Sepulchre. Size 1:5, about.[367]] CHAPTER X. CONNECTION OF THE FIVE TOMBS WITH THE ROYAL HOUSE OF PELOPS; AND DATE OF THE AGORA.