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Part III. Two Tombs1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2013
Extract
Whereas the 1954 tombs belonged to the House of Shields, of the two uncovered in 1955 one was within the House of Sphinxes and the other lay immediately to the west of it.
This burial does not need any lengthy description. It was found at the east end of an otherwise unfruitful trial trench dug immediately to the west of the modern road which runs along the western side of the House of Sphinxes. It consisted of the skeleton (in very poor condition) of a small child, placed on the rock. Two bronze pins lay together over the chest, and a cup was found on the rock beside the body. There was no longer any indication as to how the skeleton and the associated objects were originally protected.
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- Mycenae 1939–1955
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page 128 note 2 BSA l. 239 ff.
page 128 note 3 Cf. BSA l. 242, fig. 2, and 246, fig. 4.
page 128 note 4 BSA xlix. 260 ff. The lozenges and dots can be seen on the oinochoe 53–339 (pl. 45).
page 128 note 5 Ker. v. i. 281 and pl. 110. Inv. 419 (4398). No context, but dated to the second half of the ninth century.
page 128 note 6 BSA l. 241 ff., figs. 2 and 4.
page 128 note 7 BSA xlix. 263 and pl. 45. For the progressive development in the technique of manufacture of pins, reference should now be made to Jacobsthal, Greek Pins 4 ff.
page 130 note 1 On Protogeometric jugs, cf. Desborough, Protogeometric Pottery 66 ff. The nearest in decorative system to the Mycenae vase is the jug in Copenhagen, (CVA, Copenhagen, fasc, ii, pl. 66, 3).Google Scholar
page 130 note 2 BSA l. 239 ff.
page 130 note 3 Od. xix 34. For a discussion of this passage and the absence of lamps during the so-called Dark Ages see Lorimer, Homer and the Monuments 509–11. The archaeological evidence for Greece is summarized by Broneer, , Corinth iv. ii. 5Google Scholar; that for Cyprus by Gjerstad, , SCE iv. 2, 402Google Scholar, and by Schaeffer, , Enkomi-Alasia i. 223.Google Scholar
page 130 note 4 Cf. Wace, , Chamber Tombs 136, 142 and pl. xliii, nos. 46–48.Google Scholar
page 130 note 5 SCE iv. 2, 171, fig. 37.
page 130 note 6 JHS xxxi (1911) 93, fig. 18.