The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-25
MYCENH.

Interesting Discoveries made by DR.. Schlie-
mann.
DR.. Schliemann writes from MycenB
to the London Times as follows:
In the north corner of the plain of
Argos, at the foot of two steep noun
tains, one of which is $500 feet high,
and crowned by a chapel Of the Prophet
Elias, on 1872 feet high and 1900 feet
long and broad triangular rock. which
falls off precipitously to the north and
south and forms to the east and west
six natural or artificial terraces, is sit
uated the famous Acropolis Of Mycen@.
For square mile to the south and
southwest of this acropolis extended
the lower city, the site Of which is
distinctly marked' by frequent traces
OF the cyclopean circuit walls, by the
remnants of numerous cyclopean
houses, by massive cyclopean bridge,
by nine treasures, and finally by the
fragments of beautifully painted arch
aic pottery with which the ground is
strewn. I have been busy with IL la
borers for two weeks in opening the
passage from the Lions gate into the
acropolis, but have had very hard
work there, owing to the huge blocks,
by which it was INSTRUCTED and which
seem to have been hurled at the assail.
ants when the acropolis was captured
by the Argians in 1853 C. No ancient
writer mentions that MycenB has been
reinhabited after it's capture and the
expulsion of it's inhabitants. That it
was uninhabited at the time of Strabo
so B. G. to 20 A. CO. we must conclude
from his remark that no vestige of it
remains. It was certainly also unin.
hablted at the time of Pausanias (170
A. c. who described it's ruins.
But l have brought to light most pos
tive proof that it has been reinhabit-
ed for long period, and probably for
more than two centuries, because
there is ut the surface layer OF rub
Dish Of the Hellenic time which goes
three feet deep. Though I cannot fix
by the fragments of pottery the pre-.
else period of the reoccupation of the
town, yet as painted potsherds of the
best Hellenic time are missing, and as
the numerous terra.cotta figures and
f1uted vases find are of the Macedo.
MAN time down to the second century
3. c., presume that the new colony
may have been founded in the begin
ming of the fourth, and may have been
abandoned in the beginning of the
second century B. G. These two ter
mini seem to be confirmed by the med
ais found, all of which show On one
side Hera head with a crown, on the
other column, having to it's left
helm and to it's right sign generally
thought to be TIL, and thus the coin
is attributed to the Argolic city of
Thyrea. But in the opinion of A. Pos
tolacas and P. Lampros, which l &C.
cept, the sign is the spiritus disper,
and belongs to the still unknown word
which records the value of the coin.
The latter belongs to the city of Ar.
COS, and is of the Macedonian time,
which makes it utterly impossible that
the sign should be TIL, the quadrangle
lar TIL (theta) having only come into
use at the time of the Roman conquest.
I may here remark that Mycense prop
or appears to have struck no coin; at
least, none has ever been found. Be.
low the comparatively modern Hellenic
city find by thousands the fragments
of those splendidly-painted archaic
vases which already described in my
dissertation on Tiryns. But it has es-
capped me to mention that most vases
are painted both inside and outside,
4 IL g.