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THE MYCENAEAN AGE
at the udders.
Fig. 78. King
are very much alike, — a more or less simple circle, with an
oval bezel always bearing an engraved design. Such are
the gold rings (Figs. 65, 66) and a jasper
ring (Fig. 54) found at Mycenae in 1892,
and described on p. 160. Another example
is " a finger-ring cut out of a splendid white
onyx/' with a lifelike though very archaic
representation of two cows with their calves
It was found by Schliemann in 1876, and
is particularly described by him.1 Of other patterns we
have but two rings worth mentioning
(Figs. 77, 78), both of gold and both from
the Vaphio tomb. The bezel of one'of
these (Fig. 77) seems to have been filled
with glass-paste, now lost. In the other
(Fig. 78) the bezel is replaced by a rosette, which i% inlaid
— as is the ring itself — with blue and violet glass-paste
in regular alternation. These two rings prove that the
Mycenaean goldsmith had learned to diversify his seal with
a different material; and it is all the more surprising that
not a ring has yet been found set with a real stone, either
plain or engraved.
The dress of women, and of men as well, was spangled
with gold. In the third tomb, occupied by three women,
Gold Dress -^r- Schliemann found over seven hundred " large,
Trimmings ^^ voun& p]ateg Qf g^ witn ft vefy pretty
decoration of repousse work." Of these there are four-
teen different designs, — partly geometrical, as circles, wave-
lines, and spirals; partly natural, as flowers, cuttlefish, and
butterflies. Though none of these are pierced, or show
other traces of fastening, they can only have been used as
dress trimmings. Schuchhardt conjectures that " they may
■, p. 131 f., and Fig. 175.
THE MYCENAEAN AGE
at the udders.
Fig. 78. King
are very much alike, — a more or less simple circle, with an
oval bezel always bearing an engraved design. Such are
the gold rings (Figs. 65, 66) and a jasper
ring (Fig. 54) found at Mycenae in 1892,
and described on p. 160. Another example
is " a finger-ring cut out of a splendid white
onyx/' with a lifelike though very archaic
representation of two cows with their calves
It was found by Schliemann in 1876, and
is particularly described by him.1 Of other patterns we
have but two rings worth mentioning
(Figs. 77, 78), both of gold and both from
the Vaphio tomb. The bezel of one'of
these (Fig. 77) seems to have been filled
with glass-paste, now lost. In the other
(Fig. 78) the bezel is replaced by a rosette, which i% inlaid
— as is the ring itself — with blue and violet glass-paste
in regular alternation. These two rings prove that the
Mycenaean goldsmith had learned to diversify his seal with
a different material; and it is all the more surprising that
not a ring has yet been found set with a real stone, either
plain or engraved.
The dress of women, and of men as well, was spangled
with gold. In the third tomb, occupied by three women,
Gold Dress -^r- Schliemann found over seven hundred " large,
Trimmings ^^ voun& p]ateg Qf g^ witn ft vefy pretty
decoration of repousse work." Of these there are four-
teen different designs, — partly geometrical, as circles, wave-
lines, and spirals; partly natural, as flowers, cuttlefish, and
butterflies. Though none of these are pierced, or show
other traces of fastening, they can only have been used as
dress trimmings. Schuchhardt conjectures that " they may
■, p. 131 f., and Fig. 175.