DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1021#0130
THE DWELLINGS OF THE DEAD 87
are the tombstones, some o£ them sculptured with scenes
from life — heroes in their chariots engaged in war or the
chase, — one of which we shall presently reproduce and
describe.
At a depth of 7| feet below two of these stelae, and 21 feet
below the surface of the mound, Dr. Schliemann came upon
a a number of skeletons of men lying on the slope
of the rock," — doubtless, as we shall see, slaves or women's
captives immolated at the funeral of their lord, —
and 9 feet deeper still (i. e., 30 feet from the surface) he
found the sepulchre known as Grave III.1 It measures 16
feet 8 inches by 10 feet 2 inches in length and breadth,
but such is the irregularity of the rock surface that the
depth on each side varies — from 2§ feet (west) and 3^ feet
(south) to 5 feet on the north and 7 on the east. The
tomb is lined with a slanting schist wall, 5 feet high and
2| feet broad. In this tomb Dr. Schliemann "found the
mortal remains of three persons who, to judge by the small-
ness of the bones, and particularly of the teeth, and by the
masses of female ornaments, must have been women ;" and
there are indications that two children were buried with
them. The bodies lay three feet aparf on a bed of pebbles,
and were "literally laden with jewels." To these offerings
the explorer devotes forty-five pages of his " Mycenae,"
enumerating and describing them much in the order in
which they came to light. We shall attempt here so to
classify them as to suggest at least a picture of the dead
with all their funeral trappings in place.
1 See Plan, which is a section of the large-scale map in Steffen's Karten von
JMijkenai. The graves are numbered in the order followed in the Museum at
Athens and in the recent literature of the subject, hut differing from Dr.
Schlieniaun's. Graves III., IV. and VI. are the same as Schliemann's, while
Grave I. =■ SchKemann's II.
Grave II. — " V.
Grave V. = " I.
are the tombstones, some o£ them sculptured with scenes
from life — heroes in their chariots engaged in war or the
chase, — one of which we shall presently reproduce and
describe.
At a depth of 7| feet below two of these stelae, and 21 feet
below the surface of the mound, Dr. Schliemann came upon
a a number of skeletons of men lying on the slope
of the rock," — doubtless, as we shall see, slaves or women's
captives immolated at the funeral of their lord, —
and 9 feet deeper still (i. e., 30 feet from the surface) he
found the sepulchre known as Grave III.1 It measures 16
feet 8 inches by 10 feet 2 inches in length and breadth,
but such is the irregularity of the rock surface that the
depth on each side varies — from 2§ feet (west) and 3^ feet
(south) to 5 feet on the north and 7 on the east. The
tomb is lined with a slanting schist wall, 5 feet high and
2| feet broad. In this tomb Dr. Schliemann "found the
mortal remains of three persons who, to judge by the small-
ness of the bones, and particularly of the teeth, and by the
masses of female ornaments, must have been women ;" and
there are indications that two children were buried with
them. The bodies lay three feet aparf on a bed of pebbles,
and were "literally laden with jewels." To these offerings
the explorer devotes forty-five pages of his " Mycenae,"
enumerating and describing them much in the order in
which they came to light. We shall attempt here so to
classify them as to suggest at least a picture of the dead
with all their funeral trappings in place.
1 See Plan, which is a section of the large-scale map in Steffen's Karten von
JMijkenai. The graves are numbered in the order followed in the Museum at
Athens and in the recent literature of the subject, hut differing from Dr.
Schlieniaun's. Graves III., IV. and VI. are the same as Schliemann's, while
Grave I. =■ SchKemann's II.
Grave II. — " V.
Grave V. = " I.