child's mask of gold--Other ornaments--Balls, &c. of rock crystal, silver, and bronze, probably the handles of sceptres--Lentoid gems of agate, sardonyx, &c., with intaglios--A lentoid gem of amethyst engraved with a cow suckling her calf, as on the old coins of Corcyra--Gold wheels--A gold comb with bone teeth, &c.--Amber beads--Other ornaments--Pieces of gold-leaf strewn below and about the bodies--A gold goblet--A curious gold box, and gold vases with lids fastened on by wires--A silver vase and golden sceptre-handle--Boxes of copper-plate filled with wood, perhaps pillows for the dead bodies--Other objects found in the third sepulchre--Hand-made and very ancient wheel-made pottery 150 CHAPTER VIII. THE FOURTH TOMB IN THE ACROPOLIS OF MYCENÆ. Further search within the Agora, without the guide of tombstones--Discovery of an altar of Cyclopean masonry, over the centre of the great _Fourth Tomb_, containing the bodies of five men, burnt where they lay, laden with jewels, and covered with a layer of white clay--Objects found--Copper caldrons, one containing 100 gold-plated buttons with intaglio work--Homeric mention of caldrons--A silver cow's head with gold horns and a gold sun on its forehead: it represents Hera--Cow-heads with axes--Swords and lances of bronze--Gold-plated wooden sword-sheaths and hilts with gold pins--Three masks of gold covering the faces of the bodies--A fourth mask, representing a lion's head--Two seal-rings and a bracelet, with ornaments--The state of art corresponds with that described in Homer--Golden breastplates on two of the bodies--Golden crown by the head of another--Golden ornament of the greaves--Borax used then, as now, for soldering gold--More than one δέπας ἀμϕικύκελλον, and other vessels of gold and silver--The large gold goblet, with doves on the two handles, like Nestor's cup in the _Iliad_--Two-handled terra-cotta vases, hand-made, like those at Troy--Ornaments of alabaster--Gold shoulder-belts (τελαμῶνες)--Other objects found in the tomb, of rock crystal, amber, alabaster--Golden diadems, some seemingly for children; also a child's belt and frontlet, or "belle Hélène," and other ornaments of gold--Double edged battle-axes--Their use by the Greeks as a symbol, especially at Tenedos--A funeral fork of copper--Vase-lids of bone--Vessel of silver and lead in shape of an animal--Buttons of wood, plated with gold, splendidly ornamented--Their patterns and workmanship--Hundreds of gold flowers, plain buttons, and other ornaments of gold--Larger gold buttons, splendidly ornamented--Leaves of gold strewn under, over, and around the bodies--Wooden comb with gold handle--Gold models of temples--Many golden cuttle-fish--Gold knobs for