Buried cities . —Metropolitan Museum GOLD MASK. This mask was still on the face of the dead king. The artisttried to make the mask look just as the great king himself hadlooked, but this was very hard to do. A COWS HEAD OF SILVER. The kings people put into his grave this silver mask of an oxhead with golden horns. It was a symbol of the cattle sacrificedfor the dead. There is a gold rosette between the eyes. Themouth, muzzle, eyes and ears are gilded. In Homers Iliad,which is the story of the Trojan war, Diomede says, To theewill I sacrifice a yearling heifer, broad at brow, unbroken, thatneve
Buried cities . —Metropolitan Museum GOLD MASK. This mask was still on the face of the dead king. The artisttried to make the mask look just as the great king himself hadlooked, but this was very hard to do. A COWS HEAD OF SILVER. The kings people put into his grave this silver mask of an oxhead with golden horns. It was a symbol of the cattle sacrificedfor the dead. There is a gold rosette between the eyes. Themouth, muzzle, eyes and ears are gilded. In Homers Iliad,which is the story of the Trojan war, Diomede says, To theewill I sacrifice a yearling heifer, broad at brow, unbroken, thatnever yet hath man led beneath the yoke. Her will I sacrificeto thee, and gild her horns with -Metropolitan Aluscum
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