Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

ic vases. Iron, he remarked was
found 10 the upper Hellenic city or
", and no trace of it in the prehis-
toric Strata Glass was found now
and then in the shape Of white beads.
Opal glass also appeared as beads or
small ornaments. Sometimes wood
was found in perfect state at pres
crvation, as in the board Of a box on
which were carved in bas-rclief
beautiful spiraIs. Rick crystal was
| frequent, for heads and also fer vases.
There were also beds of amethyst,
0nyx, sgste, serpeptino. and the
like precious stones, with splendid
intaglio characterization representing
men or animals When towards the
middle of November he wished to
close the excavations, Dr.. Sehiemann
excavated the spots marked by the
sepulchral slabs, and found below all
of them INN ense rock cut-tomba, as
we'll as other seemingly much Older
tombstonea, and another very large
sepuichre from which the tom bstones
had disappeared. These tombs and
the treasures they contain, consist
ing of massel Of jewels gol len jia-
dems, crowns with foliage, large
stars Of leavep,g rdles, shoulder-b belts,
bree t-plates, etc, were described in
detail lie .rgued that as one hnL-
dred goldsmi,hs would mood years
to prepare such mass of jewel, there
must have been goldsmiths 10
Myecn@ from whom such jewels
could have been bought ready made.
He spoke of the necklaces, too, and
of the golden mask taken from
one of the bodies. which must evil
IDENTIFY be portrait of the deceased
DR.. Schliemann then proceeded to
show that in remote antiquity it
was either the custom, or, at least
that it was nothing unusual that liv-
ing persona wore masks. That also
immort gods wore wasks was
proved by the bust of PaIlas Athene,
of which one copy was in the British
Museum, and two in Athens. 1t was
also represented on the Corinthian
medals. The of treasures Mycena did
not contain an object which repre-
scnted trace of ORIENTAL or Egyp.
tian influences, and they proved,
therefore, that ages before the epoch
of Periclss there existed here q -four
ishing school of domestic artists, the
foundation and develop ment Of
m, ioh rooot haon oooup;od a o.noat
number of centuries. They further
proved that Homer had lived 10
Mycera's golden age, and at or
near the time of the tragic event by
which tho inmates of the five sepul-
chres lost their lives, because short
ly after that event Mycara sunk
by sudden poiticsl cstasthrope 10
the condi zion Of q poor powerless
provincial town, from which it had
never again emerged. They had
the certainty that Myeen@'s flour
ishing sche oil of art disappeared to.
gether with its wealth; but it's arts.
tical genius survived the destruction
and when, in later centuries, circum-
SSohOSo OOSouhO as oiNi AaN Va oolO AOl
its development, it lifted second
time lis head TO the heavens.
No doubt DIR. Schiiomann's theo
ries will be subjected to much critl-
cism when the full details and draw
ings eppear in bis forthc 1mirg work.
OF the value Of the discoveries them
sel7ee there can be hut one opinion.
Those alone which have teen made
in tho Acropolis OF what many have
been inclined hitherto as half
my thical city aFe of themselves suf-
fcient TO eniitle him to an impor-
tant place in the field of scientific re-
searches. Both to tho historian and
to the ethnologist his researches
must prove of The greatest value, and
all who haze been stirred with the
recital of the deods ofthe Homeric
heroes will rejoice to have hence
forth reasonable external evidence
for regarding them as something
more thaE myths.