_Leaves of Gold_, strewn all about the 4th Sepulchre, and even below the bodies, 266. _Legend_, of the crimes of the Pelopids, 53, 54; of the Trojan War and the fate of Agamemnon, the author's faith in it led to the discovery of Troy and Mycenæ, 334 f.; confirmations of its veracity, 337. _Lentoid gems_, 112, 113, 114, 202, 252; bought of peasants in Chonika, 362, 364. _Lids_ of boxes and vases of gold, fastened on by gold wires, 206, 207; of bone for jars, 256. _Lion_ of gold, 361. _Lion cub_ of gold, 251. _Lions' Gate at Mycenæ_, 4, 32, 33, 34, 35; plan of, 34; excavations at, 121, 122, 123. _Lower City of Mycenæ_, 39, 40; Cyclopean bridge at, 39; Treasuries, 39. _Lyre_ of bone, 77, 78, 79. M. _Masks of gold_: a child's, in the 3rd Sepulchre, 198; on the faces of three bodies in the 4th Sepulchre, 219-221; a fourth like a lion's head, beside another of the bodies, 222 (_Cut_, p. 211); discussion of burial with masks, 222, 223; on two of the bodies in the 1st Sepulchre, 311, 312 (_Cuts_, pp. 289, 333). _Medals._ (_See_ COINS.) _Megapenthes_, son of Prœtus, Tiryns, ceded to Perseus by, 6. _Metals_, found at Tiryns, only lead and one bronze figure, 14; found at Mycenæ, 74, 75, 77. _Moulds_, for casting ornaments, 108, 109. _Mure, Col._, cited, 45 n. _Mycenæ_, arrival at, 24; importance of excavations at the capital of Agamemnon, 28; topography of, 24 f.; Acropolis, 28 f.; the lower city, 39; the suburb, 40; confused with Argos, 36-38; history, 53 f.; decline, 56; besieged by the Argives and Cleoneans, 56; its surrender and destruction (B.C. 468), 56, 57; Homeric epithets of Mycenæ, 57; remains described by Pausanias, and true interpretation of the passage, 59, 60, 335; shafts sunk in 1874, 61; excavations begun in 1876, _ibid._; its re-occupation unknown to the ancients, 63. N. _Nails_, bronze, in the walls of the Treasury at Atreus, for holding the lining plates, 44. _Needle_ of ivory, 153. _Nestor's goblet_, in Homer, compared with one found in the 4th Sepulchre, 235-237. O. _Orestes_ kills Ægisthus and Clytemnestra; probably the last of the Pelopid dynasty at Mycenæ; reigned in Arcadia and Sparta, 55. _Oyster shells_, found in 1st Sepulchre, 332. P. _Painted vases._ (_See_ POTTERY; VASES.) _Palace_: Cyclopean house-walls, supposed to be the Royal Palace of Mycenæ, 130 f.; the substructions probably supported a wooden building, 288. _Palæocastron_, the modern name of Tiryns, 2.