The anti-monopolist., 1876-11-16
ANTIQUITIES.
The Work Of Or. Scholleman-his Excava
tons at Mvcenae

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DR.. Henry Schliemun sends long letter to
the London Times concerning his excava-
vations At Mycen@, from which We make
the following extracts;
"In the north corner Of the Plain Of Ar
gos, At the foot Of two steep mountains, one
Of which is {, 500 feet high and crowned by
chapel Of the prophet Elias, on 132 feet
high and 1,h00 feet and broad triangular
rock, which falls of precipitatsly to the
north and south and forms to the east and
west six natural or artificial terraces, is sit
uated the famous Acropolis of Mycenae. 1t
is surrounded by 13 feet to 40 feet, high
cyclopean walls, which show three different
kinds Of architecture, have evidently been
built at long intervals of time.
have been busy with II laborers for
two weeks in opening the passage from
the Lions Gate in the Acropolis, but have
had very hard work there, owing to tho
huge blocks by which it was obstructed,
and which seem to have been hurled at tn e
assailants when the Acropolis was captured
by the Argains in 46l B. c.
Below the comparatively modern Hellenic
city find by thousands the fragment of
those splendidly painted archaic vases,
which have already describedin dissertation
on Tiryns. But it has escaped me to men>
tion that most vases are painted both out
side and inside, and that in many instances
the internal paintings far exceed in origin
ality and profusion of colors those on the
outside. Thus, e.. g., found . vase decor
ated outside with representations Of q deer,
and inside, with those Of men and wome n.
l also found quite q number Of entire vases,
particularly Of those fantastically painted,
glerous vases which have at the top two
handles and a small pipe for filing or empty
ing them. All the painted vases hitherto
found have been made on the potter 3
wheel, except the very small ones which are
evidently hand made. It is true that
found in Mycenae two fragments of coarse
handmade pottery, which can only be com>
pared to the rudest pottery Of the Danish
'kyoKKenmopdinge,' but they had evidently
been transported there from elsew here, and
most decidedly have not found yet at N.Y.
cenae the stratum Of the handmade pot>
terry.
l have been able TO gather here more than
200 broken or entire terra-cotta idols of
Juno, in the form OF q woman or in that of
. COW. BY far the most Of the former have
lively red painted ornaments, on q lighter
red dead color, two breasts in relief, below
which protrudes on each side long horn,
so that both horns together from half cir
Gle, and as mentioned in. my article on
Tiryns, they must either be intended TO rep
resent COW horns or the symbolic horns Of
the crescent, or both together.
'Iron and glass had already been known
to the Mycenians at 3 remote antiquity, for
| found of the latter large pearl in ten feet
large number Of button like objects, which
sc EN- to have served as ornaments in the
house doors or elsewhere. Of iron 10 und
some knives. as we'll as some very curious
keys, one Of which is very thick, is fourteen
centimetres long. and is ., the other end
provided with ring for suspension. OF
bronze l discovered two we'll preserved
knives, one with part Of its bone handle.
further, two arrows of pyramidal form with
out barbs.
At q depth Of ten to eleven and falf feet,
and sometimes Of only Six and half feet
below the snrface, l am bringing to light
cyclopean houses, built Of uncut stone,
joined without clay or cement, and founded
twenty feet below the surface Of the natural
rock The corner stones are rKable for
their massiveness. These houses are inter
sected By curious kind Of small streets,
consisting Of two small parallel cyclopesn
walls, the space between which is 6lled up
with small stones. Still more remarkable
than ct Fryns are here the eyelopean water
eosduits, for there q least they rest on the
natural rock, while here they are imbsdded
into the rubbish, and, the uncut stones be-
ing joined without any bindisg material, IL il
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