_Sepulchres, the Royal_, at Mycenæ; described by Pausanias from tradition only, 59, 102; their position in the Acropolis unique, 101; traditional reverence for them, 337, 343; their site indicated by tombstones renewed from time to time, as they got covered with _débris_, 101 f., 337, 341; the sacred Agora, erected as an enclosure round them, in honour of the deceased heroes, probably when the monuments were renewed, 128, 129, 340: --discovery of the _First Sepulchre_, 151; work interrupted, 154; resumed, 293; the sepulchre described, 294 (_comp._ BODIES): --discovery and description of the _Second Sepulchre_, 154; --of the _Third_, 161; --of the _Fourth_, 212; --of the _Fifth_, 290. Evidence of the _simultaneous burial_ of the bodies in _each_ sepulchre, and probably in _all_, 336; agreement of the sepulchres with the tradition of the burial of Agamemnon and his companions, Chap. X. _passim_. _Shoulder belts_, of gold, in the 4th Sepulchre, 243, 244; one with a piece of a bronze sword attached, 1st Sepulchre, 298, 299; too slender to have been ever used, 300. _Signet-rings_: one of white onyx, engraved in intaglio, in the supposed Royal Palace, 131, 132; two of gold, with intaglios of a stag-hunt and a combat, 4th Sepulchre, 223-227; too small for any but female fingers, 227; two of gold, with wonderful symbolic intaglios, from the tomb south of the Agora, 354-360; correspondence of the first to a scene in Homer's "Shield of Achilles," 359, 360. _Skeleton_ of a man, found at Tiryns, 18; skeletons above the 3rd Sepulchre, 164. _Slabs_, double parallel circle of, 87, 88. (_See_ AGORA.) _Spiral ornamentation_, characteristic of Mycenean art, 82, 99, _et passim_. _Stag_, of silver and lead, 257. _Stêlæ_, sepulchral. (_See_ TOMBSTONES.) _Sthenelus_, son of Perseus, 53. _Stilettos_ of opal, for needlework, 143. _Stone bench_ round the Agora. (_See_ AGORA.) _Stone implements_, none at Tiryns, 14; at Mycenæ, 76; knives and arrow-heads of obsidian, 158, 272. _Streets_ of Mycenæ, 57. _Suastika_, the sign 卍, 77, 165. _Suspension_, vases with tubular holes for, found at Mycenæ as well as Troy, 158. _Swords of bronze_: two-edged, from the (supposed) Royal Palace, 144; a heap of, in 4th Sepulchre, with the gold ornaments of their handles and sheaths, 219; 46 more in 4th Sepulchre, 278; 10 of these short one-edged, 279; two-edged, with a ridge on each side, gilt, studded, and otherwise ornamented, 280-283, 302-304, 306, 307; their extreme narrowness, and the enormous length of some, 283, 304.