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LANDMARKS OF THE MYCENAEAN WORLD 7
Dr. Dorpfeld's rare training and keen insight is due in no
small measure the thoroughly scientific character of this
excavation, and we are further indebted to him for a very
clear and. accurate account of the palace, including the
elucidation of some difficult problems of construction.
The next advance carries the frontier of the Mycenaean
world as far north as Thessaly: there at Demini,
near Volo (the ancient Iolcos), in 1886, a domed
tomb closely resembling that at Menidi was cleared and
found to contain very similar offerings.
The same year Dr. Tsountas (acting for the Greek
Archaeological Society) resumed the excavations at My-
cenae, which still continue. He at once laid bare
i . • i t i Mycenae:
on the uppermost terrace or the citadel a palace the Palace
ii • i , nv and Tombs
oi the same general plan with that at liryns, as
well as private houses of the same period, situated below
the summit near the western wall. Thence lie proceeded
to excavate the eastern extremity of the acropolis, where he
discovered a subterranean passage leading through the
circuit wall and to a reservoir at some distance without.
Outside the citadel more than sixty tombs were found and
excavated, all of them rock-hewrn chambers, with the ex-
ception of two tholoi or vaulted tombs. Of the vaulted
tombs previously known, three were completely cleared
out, with the dromos and part of the interior of another,—
namely, the so-called Tomb of Clytemnestra, which Mrs.
Schliemann had partly excavated in 1876.
During the progress of this work at Mycenae, Dr.
Tsountas excavated (1889) a domed tomb at Vaphio (an-
cient Amyclae) near Sparta, in which he found,
Laconia:
along with many other treasures, the now famous Vaphio and
f- -n Kampos
Vaphio cups, — two magnificent gold goblets
embossed with lifelike designs. Again (1890) he opened
Dr. Dorpfeld's rare training and keen insight is due in no
small measure the thoroughly scientific character of this
excavation, and we are further indebted to him for a very
clear and. accurate account of the palace, including the
elucidation of some difficult problems of construction.
The next advance carries the frontier of the Mycenaean
world as far north as Thessaly: there at Demini,
near Volo (the ancient Iolcos), in 1886, a domed
tomb closely resembling that at Menidi was cleared and
found to contain very similar offerings.
The same year Dr. Tsountas (acting for the Greek
Archaeological Society) resumed the excavations at My-
cenae, which still continue. He at once laid bare
i . • i t i Mycenae:
on the uppermost terrace or the citadel a palace the Palace
ii • i , nv and Tombs
oi the same general plan with that at liryns, as
well as private houses of the same period, situated below
the summit near the western wall. Thence lie proceeded
to excavate the eastern extremity of the acropolis, where he
discovered a subterranean passage leading through the
circuit wall and to a reservoir at some distance without.
Outside the citadel more than sixty tombs were found and
excavated, all of them rock-hewrn chambers, with the ex-
ception of two tholoi or vaulted tombs. Of the vaulted
tombs previously known, three were completely cleared
out, with the dromos and part of the interior of another,—
namely, the so-called Tomb of Clytemnestra, which Mrs.
Schliemann had partly excavated in 1876.
During the progress of this work at Mycenae, Dr.
Tsountas excavated (1889) a domed tomb at Vaphio (an-
cient Amyclae) near Sparta, in which he found,
Laconia:
along with many other treasures, the now famous Vaphio and
f- -n Kampos
Vaphio cups, — two magnificent gold goblets
embossed with lifelike designs. Again (1890) he opened