. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. r massive gate-ways, and the walls which even at this time wereconstructed of uniformly fitted stones. Here, too,belong the palaces, with wooden columns resting onstone bases, and the so-called beehive tombs (fig. iHeinrich, Troja bei Homer und in der Wirklichkeit, Cf. Tsonutas and Manatt, The Mycenaean Age, 1897;Frazer, Pansanias, Vol. Ill, pp. 144-100,1898; Eidgewaj, EarlyAge of Greeee, Vol. I, 1901; Schuchhardt-Sellers, SchliemannsExcavations, 1891; Perrotet Chipiez, Hist, delar


. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. r massive gate-ways, and the walls which even at this time wereconstructed of uniformly fitted stones. Here, too,belong the palaces, with wooden columns resting onstone bases, and the so-called beehive tombs (fig. iHeinrich, Troja bei Homer und in der Wirklichkeit, Cf. Tsonutas and Manatt, The Mycenaean Age, 1897;Frazer, Pansanias, Vol. Ill, pp. 144-100,1898; Eidgewaj, EarlyAge of Greeee, Vol. I, 1901; Schuchhardt-Sellers, SchliemannsExcavations, 1891; Perrotet Chipiez, Hist, delartdanslanti-quite, tome VI (English edition, London and New York, 1894);Bnsolt, Griechische Gesehiohte, Vol. I, pp. 3-126; Brunn,Griechische Kunstgeschichte, Vol. I, pp. 1-G4; Reisch, Diemykenische Frage, Verhandhingen der 42 Versammlungdeutsch. Philolugen, 1894, pp. 97-123; TdofnTaf, MvKijvai nalMiKTivalo; IIoAzr<(T//of, pp. 173-264, 1893. ^Heinrich, Troja bei Homer nnd in der Wirklichkeit, p. Tsountas and Manatt, The Mycenaean Age, pp. 12-158;Frazer, Pansanias, Vol. Ill, pp. 98-144. (91). (92) THE MYCENAEAN AGE AND HOMERIC POEMS 93 S3), as Avell as the shaft-tombs(fig. 31) and the chamber-graves which were cut hori-zontally into the hillside. 37. Under the headof art we can classify thearchaic stone sculptures, suchas the Lions Gate at Mycenae(fig. 37), the engraved stones,and the inlaid and embossedwork in metal. This workreached its perfection in thefive inlaid dagger-blades () from the shaft-tombs atMycenae, and the two em-bossed gold cups from thebeehive tomb at Vaphio,near Sparta (fig. 38). Whilein these works may be seensome traces of Oriental in-fluence, yet true originalityand entire independence areshown in the decoration andpainting of the Mycenaean iHeinrich, Troja bei Homerunci in der Wirkliohkeit, Cf. Furtwiingler undLoschke, Mykenische Vasen,1886; Tsountas and Manatt, TheMycenaean Age, pp. 217-267Dumont et Chaplain, Les c^ra-miqu


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