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DRESS AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT 177
composed a necklace, but the offerings all lay in such a
way that the most o£ them appear to have adorned the
ribbon which was wound several times round the head, the
rosettes being in all probability so arranged that the gold
would alternate with the glass.
The diadem, too, belonged to a lady's outfit. This is
shown in art-representations; in female idols generally;
and in the tall women in Fig\ 65, who appear
1-1 - > n i-i t i Durfem
to wear diadems with a nower-hke crest. In the
women's graves (First and Third) of the Mycenaean acro-
polis, and in the Fourth Grave (probably shared by three
men and two women), Dr. Schliemann found a number of
these splendid golden crowns. They are usually in the
form of an elongated oval gold plate richly ornamented in
repousse work. Two of these, which were found still at-
tached to the skull, may be taken as. types of all. The
first is a thick gold plate of the typical oval form, with a
border made up of dotted parallels and spirals, and a central
line of bosses varying in size with the breadth of the dia-
dem. These bosses are set in concentric circles of dots and
leaves; and smaller bosses relieve .the spherical triangles
formed by the tangents of the larger circles. In the second
(Plate XII.) the oval (25 in. long) is embossed with three rows
of circles, which are filled alternately with rosettes and with
seven small bosses; the circles of the lower series being sep-
arated again by single small bosses, while the upper series is
punctuated in a similar way by characters resembling the
Greek T and I*.1 This richly ornamented oval is sur-
mounted by a still richer crest composing a sort of garland
1 The latter appears m four variations, and is clearly the same symbol that
recurs so frequently on Mr. Evans' Cretan seal-stones, in both pictographic
and linear form. The Mycenaean goldsmith may have copied them without
any notion of their significance.
composed a necklace, but the offerings all lay in such a
way that the most o£ them appear to have adorned the
ribbon which was wound several times round the head, the
rosettes being in all probability so arranged that the gold
would alternate with the glass.
The diadem, too, belonged to a lady's outfit. This is
shown in art-representations; in female idols generally;
and in the tall women in Fig\ 65, who appear
1-1 - > n i-i t i Durfem
to wear diadems with a nower-hke crest. In the
women's graves (First and Third) of the Mycenaean acro-
polis, and in the Fourth Grave (probably shared by three
men and two women), Dr. Schliemann found a number of
these splendid golden crowns. They are usually in the
form of an elongated oval gold plate richly ornamented in
repousse work. Two of these, which were found still at-
tached to the skull, may be taken as. types of all. The
first is a thick gold plate of the typical oval form, with a
border made up of dotted parallels and spirals, and a central
line of bosses varying in size with the breadth of the dia-
dem. These bosses are set in concentric circles of dots and
leaves; and smaller bosses relieve .the spherical triangles
formed by the tangents of the larger circles. In the second
(Plate XII.) the oval (25 in. long) is embossed with three rows
of circles, which are filled alternately with rosettes and with
seven small bosses; the circles of the lower series being sep-
arated again by single small bosses, while the upper series is
punctuated in a similar way by characters resembling the
Greek T and I*.1 This richly ornamented oval is sur-
mounted by a still richer crest composing a sort of garland
1 The latter appears m four variations, and is clearly the same symbol that
recurs so frequently on Mr. Evans' Cretan seal-stones, in both pictographic
and linear form. The Mycenaean goldsmith may have copied them without
any notion of their significance.