Chapter V

EXCAVATIONS IN AND NEAR THE ACROPOLIS--_continued_.

THE LIONS' GATE AND THE AGORA.

The Treasury excavated by Mrs. Schliemann--Older and
less sumptuous than that of Atreus--The entrance, its
ornaments--Archaic pottery found in the passage--Necklace
beads--Fragment of a marble frieze--Threshold of the Lions'
Gate--The great double row of parallel slabs, probably not
of a remote antiquity--The Acropolis only partly accessible
to chariots--The gateway double, like the Scæan Gate at
Troy--Corridors of Cyclopean house-walls--Hera-idols and
arrow-heads of bronze and iron--Door-keeper's lodge--Retaining
walls--Tower of the Acropolis resting on a massive wall--The
double circle of slabs formed the enclosure of the royal tombs
and the Agora--Arguments in proof of this view--Objects of
interest found there--A vast Cyclopean house with cisterns and
water conduit, probably the ancient Royal Palace--The spring
Perseia--No windows in the house--Objects of art and luxury
found there--An onyx seal-ring--Vase-paintings of mail-clad
warriors--Hand-made pottery in the Acropolis 118

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CHAPTER VI.

THE SECOND GREAT TREASURY; ACROPOLIS; AND CYCLOPEAN
REMAINS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MYCENÆ.

Further excavations of Mrs. Schliemann's Treasury--The
_dromos_, doorway, and threshold--Objects found
there--Hera-idols--Cyclopean water-conduits and cisterns
in the Acropolis--Bronze rings--Pottery with marks like
letters--Earrings like those found at Troy--Hand-made painted
pottery--New forms of Hera-idols--Terra-cotta tripods and
cradles, probably votive offerings--A comb, stilettos of opal,
beads and buttons--A bronze sword--Iron tongs of late date--State
of the _débris_ left at the Lions' Gate--The excavations
visited by the Emperor of Brazil--Ascent of Mount Eubœa--The
Cyclopean enclosure on its summit; was probably a very ancient
sanctuary--Other Cyclopean remains near Mycenæ--State of the
excavations 139

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