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hunters fighting three lions.
Two of the lions are running away. One lion is pouncing upon a hunter,
but his friends are coming to help him. If you could turn this dagger
over, you would see a lion chasing five gazelles. The artist used pure
gold for the bodies of the hunters and the lions; he used electron, an
alloy of gold and silver, for the hunters' shields and their trousers; and
he made the men's hair, the lions' manes, and the rims of the shields, of
some black substance. When the picture was finished on the plate, he
set the plate into the blade, and riveted on the handle. On the smaller
dagger we see three lions running.
CARVED IVORY HEAD.
It shows the kind of helmet used in Mycenae. Do you think the button
at the top may have had a socket for a horse hair plume?
BRONZE BROOCHES.
These brooches were like modern safety pins, and were used to fasten
the chlamys at the shoulder. The chlamys was a heavy woolen shawl,
red or purple.
ONE OF THE CUPS FOUND AT VAPHIO.
Some people say that these cups are the most wonderful things that
have been found, made by Mycenaean artists. Some people say that no

goldsmiths in the world since then, unless perhaps in Italy in the
fifteenth century, have done such lovely work. The goldsmith took a
plate of gold and hammered his design into it from the wrong side.
Then he riveted the two ends together where the handle was to go, and
lined the cup with a smooth gold plate. One cup shows some hunters
trying to catch wild bulls with a net. One great bull is caught in the net.
One is leaping clear over it. And a third bull is tossing a hunter on his
horns. On the other cup the artist shows some bulls quietly grazing in
the forest, while another one is being led away to sacrifice.
The Vaphian cups are now in the National museum in Athens. They
were found in a "bee-hive" tomb at Vaphio, an ancient site in Greece,
not far from Sparta. It is thought that they were not made there, but in
Crete.
PLATES.
At Mycenae were found seven hundred and one large round plates of
gold, decorated with cuttlefish, flowers, butterflies, and other designs.
GOLD ORNAMENT. (Lower right hand corner.)
MYCENAE IN THE DISTANCE.

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