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98 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
description, for which the reader must go to Scliliemann's
own original account or to Schuchhardt's admirable con-
densation of it.
Here we shall confine ourselves to those of more general
importance or specially characteristic and illustrative. And
we may premise that these funeral furnishings included
many objects of no practical utility — especially the cheap
ornaments, fabricated expressly for the dead, though always
Fig. 35. Gold Mask (Grave IV.)
in imitation of things actually worn by the living. So the
golden knee-caps, the armlets of gold-foil and many other
gewgaws were doubtless substituted for the more substan-
tial and serviceable articles of actual use. Later, especially
in Roman times, the Greeks often buried with their dead
these gold-foil ornaments, such as ear and finger rings,
while the more solid and valuable jewelry actually worn by
the departed in their lifetime was kept by the survivors.
description, for which the reader must go to Scliliemann's
own original account or to Schuchhardt's admirable con-
densation of it.
Here we shall confine ourselves to those of more general
importance or specially characteristic and illustrative. And
we may premise that these funeral furnishings included
many objects of no practical utility — especially the cheap
ornaments, fabricated expressly for the dead, though always
Fig. 35. Gold Mask (Grave IV.)
in imitation of things actually worn by the living. So the
golden knee-caps, the armlets of gold-foil and many other
gewgaws were doubtless substituted for the more substan-
tial and serviceable articles of actual use. Later, especially
in Roman times, the Greeks often buried with their dead
these gold-foil ornaments, such as ear and finger rings,
while the more solid and valuable jewelry actually worn by
the departed in their lifetime was kept by the survivors.