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weapons. In the same tomb was found a six and a half inch high, hand- 

 made, light green vase, ornamented with two rows each of three protruding 

 humps; further, a light red vase, ornamented with black spiral lines, and 

 with two female breasts surrounded by circles of black strokes. 



"The three bodies of this tomb lay with their heads to the east and 

 their feet to the west; all throe were of gigantic proportions, and appeared 

 to have been squeezed with force into the small space of only six feet, 

 which was left for them between the aforesaid walls; the bones of the legs, 

 which are nearly uninjured, are really of enormous size. Although the 

 head of the first man was covered with a heavy golden mask, his skull 

 crumbled away on being exposed to the air, and but few bones could be 

 saved besides those of the legs. The same was the case w^ith the second 

 body, which had been plundered in antiquity. But of the third body, 

 which lay at the north end of the tomb, the round face with its flesh had 

 been wonderfully preserved under its ponderous golden mask; there was 

 no vestige of hair, but both eyes were perfectly visible, also the mouth, 

 which, by the enormous weight that had been pressing upon it, was wide 

 open and showed thirty-two beautiful teeth. By these all the physicians 

 who came to see the body were led to believe that the man must have died 

 at the early age of thirty-five. The nose was entirely gone. The body 

 having been too long for the sj)ace between the two inner walls of the tomb, 

 the head had been pressed in such a way on the breast that the upper part 

 of the shoulders was nearly in a horizontal line with the vertex of the head. 

 In spite of the large golden breastplate, so little had been preserved of the 

 breast that the inner side of the spine was visible in many places. In its 

 squeezed and mutilated state the body measured only two feet four an-d a 

 half inches from the top of the head to the beginning of the loins; the 

 breadth of the shoulders did not exceed one foot one inch, and the breadth 

 of the stomach one foot three inches; but the gigantic thigh bones could 

 leave no doubt regarding the real proportions of the bod,y. Such had been 

 the pressure of the rubbish and stones that the body had been reduced to 

 the thickness of one inch to one and a half inches. The color of the corpse 

 resembled very much that of an Egyptian mummj^. The front of the man 

 was ornamented with a plain round leaf of gold, and a still larger one was 

 lying on the right eye; I further observed a large and a small gold leaf on 

 the breast, below the large golden breast cover." 



Dr. Schliemann resumes his narrative under date December 3d: 



"The now nearly mummified hodj was decorated with a four foot long 

 by one and three-fourths inch broad golden shoulder belt, which, by some 

 cause or another, was not in its place, for it now lay across the loins of the 

 corpse, and extended in a straight line far to the right of it; in its midst is 

 suspended and firmly attached, a small bronze sword, on which is soldered 

 a beautifullj^ polished, perforated object of rock-crystal in form of a jar 

 with two silver handles. It is pierced in its entire length by a silver pin. 

 "With it was found a small object of rock-crj^stal in form of a funnel, with 

 four concave sides. To the right and left of the body lay long bronze 

 swords; to the left was also a long bronze knife. All these weapons had 

 probably been suspended on a belt of embroidered work, which had disap- 

 peared. The sheaths of the swords had been of wood, much debris of which 

 remained. All the sheaths had been gilded, and had in their entire length 

 been adorned with round buttons of gold, which showed many different 

 sorts of magnificently engraved spirak lines. The handles of the swords 

 were plated with gold and covered with splendid engravings. Instead of 



