DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1021#0131
88 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
To begin with the objects in gold : there were 6 dia-
dems, among them the splendid gold crown with the flower-
with its crest (Plate XII.), which still encircled the head of
offerings one p£ jne women. a g0i<j 00mb with bone teeth;
the ornate gold-headed hairpin (Fig. 67); 6 gold spirals
for the hair; 15 gold pendants; 11 gold neeldace-eoils;
6 gold bracelets; 8 gold crosses and stars; 10 gold grass-
hoppers hung from gold chains; 1 gold butterfly; 4 gold
griffins — one flying; 4 gold lions couchant; 12 gold orna-
ments, each with two stags reposing upon branches of a
date palm ; 10 ornaments with lions — one with two lions
attacking an ox; 3 gold intaglios with vigorous figure-sub-
jects (Figs. 73-75); 51 gold ornaments embossed with cuttle-
fish, butterflies, swans, eagles, hippocampi and sphinxes; 4
female idols in gold, including two of Aphrodite with doves;
18 gold wheels and tubes; 2 pairs of gold scales; 1 gold
mask of child; 1 gold goblet embossed with fishes swim-
ming ; 5 gold vases with lids; and, finally, 701 " large,
thick, round, plates of gold, with a very pretty decoration
of repousse work in fourteen different designs — spirals,
flowers, cuttlefish, butterflies, etc." In addition to this pro-
fusion of gold, there were 4 silver vases and goblets, 2 silver
rods plated with gold; a magnificent alabaster vase and
cup j 1 bronze vase and 3 large bronze caldrons ; several en-
graved gems; and " an enormous quantity of amber beads."
Such is a rapid inventory of the funeral outfit of these My-
cenaean ladies, in which Dr. Schliemann enumerates 870
objects in gold alone (illustrated by 86 figures), not includ-
ing " many small gold ornaments," " a large quantity " of
gold beads, and " another large quantity of small pieces of
very thin beaten gold with which the whole tomb was
strewn."
Leaving for the present all comment on this funeral
To begin with the objects in gold : there were 6 dia-
dems, among them the splendid gold crown with the flower-
with its crest (Plate XII.), which still encircled the head of
offerings one p£ jne women. a g0i<j 00mb with bone teeth;
the ornate gold-headed hairpin (Fig. 67); 6 gold spirals
for the hair; 15 gold pendants; 11 gold neeldace-eoils;
6 gold bracelets; 8 gold crosses and stars; 10 gold grass-
hoppers hung from gold chains; 1 gold butterfly; 4 gold
griffins — one flying; 4 gold lions couchant; 12 gold orna-
ments, each with two stags reposing upon branches of a
date palm ; 10 ornaments with lions — one with two lions
attacking an ox; 3 gold intaglios with vigorous figure-sub-
jects (Figs. 73-75); 51 gold ornaments embossed with cuttle-
fish, butterflies, swans, eagles, hippocampi and sphinxes; 4
female idols in gold, including two of Aphrodite with doves;
18 gold wheels and tubes; 2 pairs of gold scales; 1 gold
mask of child; 1 gold goblet embossed with fishes swim-
ming ; 5 gold vases with lids; and, finally, 701 " large,
thick, round, plates of gold, with a very pretty decoration
of repousse work in fourteen different designs — spirals,
flowers, cuttlefish, butterflies, etc." In addition to this pro-
fusion of gold, there were 4 silver vases and goblets, 2 silver
rods plated with gold; a magnificent alabaster vase and
cup j 1 bronze vase and 3 large bronze caldrons ; several en-
graved gems; and " an enormous quantity of amber beads."
Such is a rapid inventory of the funeral outfit of these My-
cenaean ladies, in which Dr. Schliemann enumerates 870
objects in gold alone (illustrated by 86 figures), not includ-
ing " many small gold ornaments," " a large quantity " of
gold beads, and " another large quantity of small pieces of
very thin beaten gold with which the whole tomb was
strewn."
Leaving for the present all comment on this funeral