The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-02-08
sCHLIEMANNs SUCCESSES.
bfore Rich Greeian Tombs Discovered at
Mycenae--A Mummifed Warrior OF
Gigantic Size Unearthed.

under date of December 3D., describes
the body of man discovered by him as
follows The now nearly mummified
body was decorated with four-foot long
l. inch broad golden shoulder belt, which
by some cause or another, was not III its
place, for it lay across the loins of the
corpse, and extended in a straight line
far to the right of it it its midst is sus,
pended, and firmly attached, small
bronze sword, on which is soldered q
beautifully polished, perforated object
Of rock crystal in form of jar with sill
yer handles. Ii is pierced in its entire
length with a silver pin. With it was
found q small object of rock crystal in
form of 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. Al these weapons
had probably been suspenGe! on belt
of embroidered work, which had disap-
peared The sheaths of the swords had
been of wood, much debris of which re-
NAMED All the sheaths had been gid
ed, and had in their entire length been
adorned with round buttons of gold,
which showed many different sorts of
magnifcently engraved spiral lines. The
handles of the swords were plated with
gold and covered with splendid engrav-
ings Instead of the usual large wood
or alabaster buttons of the handles the
sword handles of this body seem to have
had at their extremity richly ornamented
golden plates, ten of which were found
close to it, Each of them is 4-5 inches
long and l 3-5 inches broad, and every
one Of them represents large cow-head
with long horns and immense eyes {;
further, lion pursuing 2 stag with such
velocity that his four legs are in the
same ,orizontal line with the body 1;
the stag, though still running at full
speed, feels that he is lost, turns his
head towards his merciless pursuer and
looks at him full of anguish. To the re-
verse side of these wonderful plates still
stick a good deal of blackish matter,
perhaps q sort of lime, which may have
served, I do not know how, to fasten
them to the handles. Two plates must
necessarily have been required for each
handle 70 the bronze sword, on the
right of the body, was attached 8 3-5
inches golden tasseI The massive gold
en- mask. which covered the head of his
body, and which / mentioned in my last
letter, is u % inches long and ~ inch
es broad. It is so thick that the enor-
nous weight, which for ages has been
pressing upon it, has made no impress
ion upon it. Tt shows a round face with
large eyes and a large mouth, much re-
sembling the features Of the body when
first uncovered, and [ feel now more
convinced than ever that all the golden
masks faithfully represent the features
which they cover. III fact Z single glance
on the splendidly-m masks must con
vince every one that they are real per-
traits ard not ideal types. The golden
breast cover of this body, which I like
wise mentioned in my last letter, is Il
2-5 inches long and s 4-5 inches broad
At q distance Of hardly more than one
foot to the right Of the body found
eleven bronze swords, of which nine had
more or less suffered from moisture, but
the other two were well preserved. One
of them had the enormous length of 3
feet 3-5 inches, the other feet ) )
inches. With the swords found four
sword ldles, with richly ornamented
golden plates, several golden tubes with
remnants of wood. 124 large, beautifully
engraved round gold buttons, two OF
which We're of enormous size, while fou1
were only the size of franc. Further
six large, splendidly ornamented golden
buttons Ill the form OF crosses, three OF
which are inches long and 1 ! inches
broad. These buttons consist either Of
fiat pieces Of bone covered with golden
blades, and in this case they have invar
lably been pasted or soldered as embel-
hshments or sword sheathes or Other
objects, or they consist of real bone
buttons, resembling orr present shirt
and in this cSse they must have beer
used on clothes. The indescribablt
magniticently engraved characterization O.
both these kinds of buttons can leave nc
doubt as to the importance attached f,
them. I may add that not only all thu
golden buttons in cross form, but ads,
All the very large round golden buttons
have on their lower side & fat piece O.
bone.
There was further found to the RICH
of the body a very large golden drink
ing cup, with one handle. Il is no les
than six inches in diameter and fy.
inches in height; it has two parable
horizontal rows of ornamentation. O
which the lower one represents fish,
spines, The upper one something Xix,
windows. There was also found ye1,
large one hundred golden goblet. bein.
five and three-ffths inches in diameter
decorated with two parallel horizonta
rows Of beautiful spiral lines, in whic1
occur q large number OF that crriou
cross, which is 50 frequently met wiz
in the 1nins of Troy, and which is tho
to be the symbol Of the holy fire .b
Arani of the Brahmans. There va
found third golden goblet. ornament
cd with three lions, which are represen;
ed as running with great velocity. Their
were also found three silver dripki,,e