_Sword-handles_, wooden, gilt, and ornamented with gold-plates, studs, and nails, 219; covers of gold-plate belonging to, 269-271, 305; knobs of alabaster, 219, 281, 282; one plated with gold, richly ornamented, and containing a piece of the bronze sword, 307, 308. _Sword-sheaths_, wooden, remains of, and the golden plates that ornamented them, 219, 303, 305 (_comp._ PLATES OF GOLD); pieces still on swords, 281; of linen, traces of, adhering to swords, 283. _Sword-tassel_ of gold, 304. T. _Telegram_ to the King of the Hellenes and His Majesty's reply, 365. _Temple_ of gold, model of, 267. _Terra-cottas_: vases, Tirynthian archaic, 17; archaic at Mycenæ, 51, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68; compared with those at Ialysus, 65; figure of a woman, 73; tripods, 69, 143, 158; vessels, 209; cows and a cow-horn, 143 (_comp._ COWS; IDOLS); objects found in 2nd Sepulchre, 159; vases in 3rd Sepulchre, 210; in 4th Sepulchre, 241; goblets, 285, 286. _Thyestes_, brother of Atreus, legend of, 53. _Tiryns_: excavations at, 1; site of, 2; Pausanias on, 2; Cyclopean walls of, 2, 4, 5; rock of, 4; founded by Prœtus, 6; conquered and inhabited by Hercules, 6; destroyed by the Argives, 7; plain south of, 8. _Tombs._ (_See_ SEPULCHRES.) _Tombstones_, or _sepulchral stêlæ_, sculptured and plain, in the Acropolis of Mycenæ, above the Royal Sepulchres: the 1st sculptured, 80 (_Cut_, p. 52); the 2nd sculptured, 82; the 3rd sculptured, 88; the 4th sculptured, 90; 5 plain, 92; several fragments of sculptured, 92-96; they all mark the site of tombs, 100 (_comp._ SEPULCHRES); plan of, in the 1st Sepulchre, 151; plan of, above the 3rd Sepulchre, 161; two plain above the 5th Sepulchre, 291. _Tongs_ of iron, 144; of silver, 308. _Treasures_: of the Pelopids, 48; enor-mous in the Royal Sepulchres, 337; custom of burial with, 344-349. _Treasuries_, in the suburb of Mycenæ, underground and dome-shaped, called "ovens" (φοῦρνοι), 41; one near the Lions' Gate, _ibid._, excavated by Mrs. Schliemann, 102, 118, 140 f.; two smaller ones, 41; of Atreus, 42; commonly called the "Tomb of Agamemnon," 49; compared with that of Minyas at Orchomenus, 45; arguments for their being treasuries, 47, 48; a sixth, close to the great Heræum, 59 (_comp._ Plan D). _Tripods_; of copper, 137, 277; of terra-cotta (_see_ TERRA-COTTAS). _Trojan War_, the Author's faith in the, led to his discoveries, 334, 335. _Tubes_; of gold plate, 203; of gold, 1st Sepulchre, 305; of bone, 1st Sepulchre, 329. V.