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THE MYCENAEAN AGE
the market those commercially worthless but archaeologically invaluable
finds, the potsherds and other rubbish of his deposit, which would go far
to solve the problem of the treasure.
It is a treasure of gold, and consists of a cup ; 4 pendants ; 5 necklaces ;
54 roundels for dress-trimming ; 3 or 4 diadems ; a bracelet of solid gold;
5 solid gold rings of nearly uniform weight, and so conjectured to be ring-
money; and 5 finger-rings inlaid with glass paste.
The cup (Fig. 164) is of very pure gold, 9.6 era. in diameter, and
weighs 83.6 grammes. It had bat one handle (now lost) ; is shallower
than the two-handled goblet from Grave IV., which it somewhat resembles;
and bears a design in repousse, consisting of a central rosette surrounded
by four returning spirals, which recall the ornamentation of a prochous
from Grave IV.
" The gold cup with its returning spirals may be regarded as a typical
example of the Mycenaean decorative style; the roundels of thin gold
plate, with their volute borders and central rosette, point clearly to the
same connection ; and the diadems, with their punctuated patterns [con-
sisting of a double row of returning spirals between parallel lines], show
a distinct affinity to the latest fillets of the same kind from the Akropolis
Grave No. IV., at Mykenae."
With the pendants, however, it is otherwise; they have a distinctly
outlandish air, as will be seen from the accompanying reproductions.
One of them (Fig. 165) consists
of two open-work plates, the upper
being embossed with the design
of a man standing on a base like
a lotos-tipped boat and holding
two water-fowl. It is a familiar
Nile scene, — the fowler in his
boat seizing the trophies of his
sport. At the same time it re-
calls Artemis grasping two swans
on our gem (Fig. 96). A kin-
dred scheme recurs on a bronze
at Bologna, and on another in the
British Museum. The repousse
design is backed by a flat plate,
as is the case with the Vaphio
cups; and the same is true of the third pendant (Fig. 167).
In Fig. 166 we have a still more outlandish design. It is one of four
ornaments with open-work centres containing figures of dogs and apes,
with pendant disks and owls. The dogs recall Assyrian types, while ape-
hunting is a known Phoenician subject, appearing on a silver tazza from
Fig. 165. Gold Pendant (width 6.2 cm.)
THE MYCENAEAN AGE
the market those commercially worthless but archaeologically invaluable
finds, the potsherds and other rubbish of his deposit, which would go far
to solve the problem of the treasure.
It is a treasure of gold, and consists of a cup ; 4 pendants ; 5 necklaces ;
54 roundels for dress-trimming ; 3 or 4 diadems ; a bracelet of solid gold;
5 solid gold rings of nearly uniform weight, and so conjectured to be ring-
money; and 5 finger-rings inlaid with glass paste.
The cup (Fig. 164) is of very pure gold, 9.6 era. in diameter, and
weighs 83.6 grammes. It had bat one handle (now lost) ; is shallower
than the two-handled goblet from Grave IV., which it somewhat resembles;
and bears a design in repousse, consisting of a central rosette surrounded
by four returning spirals, which recall the ornamentation of a prochous
from Grave IV.
" The gold cup with its returning spirals may be regarded as a typical
example of the Mycenaean decorative style; the roundels of thin gold
plate, with their volute borders and central rosette, point clearly to the
same connection ; and the diadems, with their punctuated patterns [con-
sisting of a double row of returning spirals between parallel lines], show
a distinct affinity to the latest fillets of the same kind from the Akropolis
Grave No. IV., at Mykenae."
With the pendants, however, it is otherwise; they have a distinctly
outlandish air, as will be seen from the accompanying reproductions.
One of them (Fig. 165) consists
of two open-work plates, the upper
being embossed with the design
of a man standing on a base like
a lotos-tipped boat and holding
two water-fowl. It is a familiar
Nile scene, — the fowler in his
boat seizing the trophies of his
sport. At the same time it re-
calls Artemis grasping two swans
on our gem (Fig. 96). A kin-
dred scheme recurs on a bronze
at Bologna, and on another in the
British Museum. The repousse
design is backed by a flat plate,
as is the case with the Vaphio
cups; and the same is true of the third pendant (Fig. 167).
In Fig. 166 we have a still more outlandish design. It is one of four
ornaments with open-work centres containing figures of dogs and apes,
with pendant disks and owls. The dogs recall Assyrian types, while ape-
hunting is a known Phoenician subject, appearing on a silver tazza from
Fig. 165. Gold Pendant (width 6.2 cm.)