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104 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
heifer, broad at brow, unbroken, that never yet hath man
led beneath the yoke. Her will I saerifice to thee, and
gild her horns with gold." Again, in the Odyssey (iii.
382-4) we find Nestor making the same vow to the same
goddess, and we even witness the gilding of the horns by
Laerkes the goldsmith (»'o., 429^38): " So the heifer came
from the field: . . . the smith came holding in his h^inds
his tools, the means of his craft, anvil and hammer and
well-made pincers, wherewith he wrought the gold; Athene,
too, came to receive her sacrifice. And the old knight
Nestor gave gold, and the other fashioned it skillfully, and
gilded therewith the horns of the heifer, that the goddess
might be glad at the sight of her fair offering."
Of the rich spoil of this grave, two more objects require
mention. One of these is a lion-mask in gold; the
other a vessel of an alloy of silver and lead cast
andStaJ- in the form of an antlered stag. With this may
be compared " the figure of an ox treated partly
as a statuette, partly as a vase " found in a grave at Hagia
Paraskevi in Cyprus.1
Among the finds from Grave V., which puzzled Schlie-
mann, were twelve rectangular gold plates, four of them
GoM-piated embossed w'ith interwoven spirals, the rest with
i*'ke's two slightly different designs of a lion chasing a
stag. Schuehhardt found that " these plates had belonged
to two small caskets, whose hexagonal wooden bottoms are
still in existence. The long sides correspond exactly to the
long plates [with the figure designs], the two short sides
Ostrich Eee t0 t'le two short ones." These ornate boxes
would naturally be taken for a lady's belongings,
but the inference would be erroneous, as only men were
buried in this grave. The genuine shell of an ostrich egg
1 Ohiiefalseh-llicliter, I. c.
heifer, broad at brow, unbroken, that never yet hath man
led beneath the yoke. Her will I saerifice to thee, and
gild her horns with gold." Again, in the Odyssey (iii.
382-4) we find Nestor making the same vow to the same
goddess, and we even witness the gilding of the horns by
Laerkes the goldsmith (»'o., 429^38): " So the heifer came
from the field: . . . the smith came holding in his h^inds
his tools, the means of his craft, anvil and hammer and
well-made pincers, wherewith he wrought the gold; Athene,
too, came to receive her sacrifice. And the old knight
Nestor gave gold, and the other fashioned it skillfully, and
gilded therewith the horns of the heifer, that the goddess
might be glad at the sight of her fair offering."
Of the rich spoil of this grave, two more objects require
mention. One of these is a lion-mask in gold; the
other a vessel of an alloy of silver and lead cast
andStaJ- in the form of an antlered stag. With this may
be compared " the figure of an ox treated partly
as a statuette, partly as a vase " found in a grave at Hagia
Paraskevi in Cyprus.1
Among the finds from Grave V., which puzzled Schlie-
mann, were twelve rectangular gold plates, four of them
GoM-piated embossed w'ith interwoven spirals, the rest with
i*'ke's two slightly different designs of a lion chasing a
stag. Schuehhardt found that " these plates had belonged
to two small caskets, whose hexagonal wooden bottoms are
still in existence. The long sides correspond exactly to the
long plates [with the figure designs], the two short sides
Ostrich Eee t0 t'le two short ones." These ornate boxes
would naturally be taken for a lady's belongings,
but the inference would be erroneous, as only men were
buried in this grave. The genuine shell of an ostrich egg
1 Ohiiefalseh-llicliter, I. c.