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most similar stone, with beautiful serpentine ornaments, similar to those 

 taken out of the treasury of Atreus, which are now in the British Museum. 



In excavating the treasure house of Clytemnestra (so-called), near the 

 Acropolis, many figures of Juno were found. Some have extended hands, 

 others have them clasped on the breast. Also some female figures, with 

 large eyes and outstretched hands. On each side of the breasts horns pro- 

 trude, and, uniting, form a circle. Also male figures, with uncovered heads, 

 ornamented by a diadem with a star. The figures have large Asiatic noses, 

 large ej^es, and Assyrian beards. Many figures of Juno, in form like a cow, 

 are also found, decorated with paintings in red and blue. All these were 

 found in a trench in front of treasure houses. In the Acropolis figures of 

 Juno were found in such abundance that more than seven hundred have 

 been collected. There also have been discovered many figures the centres 

 of whose bodies form quoits, and represent the full moon. As Juno was at 

 first the goddess of the moon, the horns of the cow represent the crescent 

 moon. There are also figures with uncovered heads, bird-shaped. Others 

 with heads much compressed, and having on them a kind of flat dish or 

 plate, on which a cross is sometimes painted. Figures of females with cows' 

 heads are frequently met with, but these until the present time (November 

 21) have been seen only on handles of vases. Curiously enough these pic- 

 tures of figures with cows' heads were found in Troy on vase handles onl}^ 

 We have also a bone button, with thin gold covering, in the middle of which 

 is graven a circle, with a triangle made by three long, broad knives, their 

 handles composed of beautiful spiral lines. That gold and silver were in 

 use is proved by the fact that a piece of porphyry has been found on both 

 sides of which are cut fifteen different patterns of ornaments, such as ear- 

 rings, brooches, etc., which ornaments, there is no doubt, were always made 

 of gold or silver. There have also been found, at a depth of about five me- 

 tres, numerous copper articles, among them five large knives, two small 

 wheels, two lances, two battle-axes, a pair of tongs, two vases and pieces of 

 four others. Also many pieces of agate, with pictures of animals delicately 

 engraved on them; they have holes through them, and were probably used 

 for necklaces. Most wonderful are the variety of the paintings' on the vases. 

 The greater part of them are painted inside and outside, the inside paint- 

 ings being usually much the finer. • 



Up to this date (November 21) only three small inscriptions have been 

 discovered. One is on both sides of a figure of Juno; another on an earthen 

 figure of a cow; the third is on a small quoit. The letters. Dr. Schliemann 

 believes, are quite unknown. There are also very curious cups, in shape 

 like a claret glass, with sometimes only one, sometimes two handles. In no 

 part of the Acropolis is the accumulation of earth more than eight metres. 

 This depth is only reached near the great surrounding wall. The quai-ry 

 from which the stones for the great cyclojDean walls were taken has been 

 found in the village of Charvati, half an hour's distance from the Acropolis. 



The excavation of the supposed treasure house of Clytemnestra would 

 have been finished much more quickly had it not been impeded by the huge 

 stones which appear to have fallen in from the roof. Dr. Schliemann 

 thinks that the inner walls of this treasure house were never ornamented 

 by brass 'slabs, as were those of the treasure house of Atreus and that of 

 Minyas, in Orchonenus. This one (at Mycena) is simpler, and appears 

 much more ancient than the other two. The entrance is five metres long 

 and eight wide; the roof consists of four slabs, each six metres in length. 

 From some marks on the walls it appears that there was, on either side of 

 the entrance, a square pillar, and fragments of a spiral ornament are seen 

 on the slab over the entrance. Some divisions on the stones, forming a 



