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CHAPTER VII.
SILVER.
By D. G. Hqgartii.
Plates XI-XIII.
Objects in silver were less numerous than those in gold and electrum, and
only a small proportion was found in the Basis filling-. The great majority
resulted from the sieving of the lowest deposit immediately E. of the Basis. In
the latter region a " pocket" of silver objects occurred which may represent
the contents of a casket. All but a few of the silver objects recovered were
so greatly decomposed that it was impossible to clean them to any good
purpose; and even those whose surface was still good had mostly become
spongy by internal loss of metal. Little could be done with most of them
but to brush away the superficial chloride.
Figurines.
(a.) Anthropoid.
xi. 23. Male, erect, nude and markedly ithyphallic. H. "035. Surface little
worked and limbs indicated in a rudimentary way ; e.g., there have never been
any hands, and the feet are formless knobs. \V. 100. The metal is in unusually
good condition. (E. area, from the " pocket.")
xi. 11. Shell ; female fully draped. Similar type to Gold, iv. 4 ; but the hands are
somewhat more to the front; broken at the top. (E. area, the " pocket.")
(6.) Birds.
xi. 2. Hawk, perched on oval stand ; hollow. H. '020; W. 30. (Basis.)
xi. 1. Ditto, the feet grasped by a human hand. H. 053; W. 215; hollow.
(E. area ; " pocket.") Doubtless from a statuette of the goddess,
xi. 3. Ditto. H. "036; W. 52; hollow; much decayed. (E. area.)
xi.4,5,6. Seven ditto of solid metal ; H. from '025 downwards ; \V. from 176 down
wards. One specimen (pi. xi. 5) has a collar of electrum beads. \Y. 85.
(Basis 2 and E. area 5.)
xi. 9. One ditto ; silhouette cut out of thick plate. (E. area ; " pocket")
CHAPTER VII.
SILVER.
By D. G. Hqgartii.
Plates XI-XIII.
Objects in silver were less numerous than those in gold and electrum, and
only a small proportion was found in the Basis filling-. The great majority
resulted from the sieving of the lowest deposit immediately E. of the Basis. In
the latter region a " pocket" of silver objects occurred which may represent
the contents of a casket. All but a few of the silver objects recovered were
so greatly decomposed that it was impossible to clean them to any good
purpose; and even those whose surface was still good had mostly become
spongy by internal loss of metal. Little could be done with most of them
but to brush away the superficial chloride.
Figurines.
(a.) Anthropoid.
xi. 23. Male, erect, nude and markedly ithyphallic. H. "035. Surface little
worked and limbs indicated in a rudimentary way ; e.g., there have never been
any hands, and the feet are formless knobs. \V. 100. The metal is in unusually
good condition. (E. area, from the " pocket.")
xi. 11. Shell ; female fully draped. Similar type to Gold, iv. 4 ; but the hands are
somewhat more to the front; broken at the top. (E. area, the " pocket.")
(6.) Birds.
xi. 2. Hawk, perched on oval stand ; hollow. H. '020; W. 30. (Basis.)
xi. 1. Ditto, the feet grasped by a human hand. H. 053; W. 215; hollow.
(E. area ; " pocket.") Doubtless from a statuette of the goddess,
xi. 3. Ditto. H. "036; W. 52; hollow; much decayed. (E. area.)
xi.4,5,6. Seven ditto of solid metal ; H. from '025 downwards ; \V. from 176 down
wards. One specimen (pi. xi. 5) has a collar of electrum beads. \Y. 85.
(Basis 2 and E. area 5.)
xi. 9. One ditto ; silhouette cut out of thick plate. (E. area ; " pocket")