. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. lavos) fastened on the shoulder by a 1 Professor Ridgeway (Early Age of Greece, Vol. I, pp. 294ff.) goes so far as to maintain that the Homeric age was an ironage, and that the more freqnent use of the word bronze {xa?.i<6r)than the word iron (c/VSv/ior) is merely a reminiscence of anearlier use of that metal. Cf. Je^-ons, Iron in Homer, Journalof Hellenic Studies, 1803. ^Heinrieh, Troja bei Homer und in derWirklichkeit, p. Tsountas and Manatt, The Mycenaean A,ge, pp. ;Eidg
. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. lavos) fastened on the shoulder by a 1 Professor Ridgeway (Early Age of Greece, Vol. I, pp. 294ff.) goes so far as to maintain that the Homeric age was an ironage, and that the more freqnent use of the word bronze {xa?.i<6r)than the word iron (c/VSv/ior) is merely a reminiscence of anearlier use of that metal. Cf. Je^-ons, Iron in Homer, Journalof Hellenic Studies, 1803. ^Heinrieh, Troja bei Homer und in derWirklichkeit, p. Tsountas and Manatt, The Mycenaean A,ge, pp. ;Eidgeway, Early Age in Greece, Vol. I, pp. 297-299. •^Cf. Furtwiingler und Loschcke, q/). cit. Plate XLI. THE MYCENAEAN AGE AND HOMERIC POEMS 109 brooch (ircpovrj) like the DoviG chiimi, while about thewaist was worn a girdle. But Mycenaean monuments(the tvfo gold signets and the stone tablet from My-cenae, the engraved gem from Vaphio) show a dresstightly fitting the upper portion of the body (fig. 4i)and trimmed below the waist with flounces. It islikely that the body of the garment was buttoned.^. Fig. 44. Gold Signet from Mycenae Although Schliemann found no trace of brooches inthe shaft-graves at Mycenae, yet the discovery by theGreek Archaeological Society of three kinds ofbrooches in the lower town may indicate that thetransition from the older dress seen on the monu-ments to the garment fastened by the fibula occurredduring Mycenaean times. ( 023. cil. p. 63.) suggests that several of the so-called spindle whorls on account of their small size and fre-quent occiircnco are to be regarded as buttons. 110 MYCENAEAN TROY 42. Disposition of the Dead.^ In the Mycenaean agethe dead were buried. This custom rested upon theprimitive cultus of the dead. In Homer, on the otherhand, the dead were burned on a funeral pile, and amound erected in their honor, an insignificant markof respect (yepas Oavovrwv) compared with the Myce-naean method of burial. Traces of the divine
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