THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901

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24 PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION.
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light neoiit hie ini])leiiieiits, a vast (piantity
of archaic pottery,
1 II -' ; 'i'siuiiitas, (./. ril.. p. Ci. eir. teri'a-cottas (Figs. IS 21 ). bi-oiizes and nianv other objects.
the palace. Another typo
is "a sitting female as flat as a board,
At Pronoia, a suburb of Nauplia, in 1889 90, in the base
with great protruding eyes, bow-like prominent nose, and with
of Palamidi and close to the fortress-gate, a series of rock-hewn
no indication of a mouth. The head is adorned with a coronal
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tombs was excavated. Each of them consists of a quadrangular
the breast with the breastplate peculiar to
many archaic terracottas,
chamber with a long narrow approach or dromos. The en-
the ends of which rise above the shoulders. A tuft of
trances to the chambers were closed with masonry. In some
of the tombs bones mixed with Mycenean pottery were found
in quadrangular depressions cut in the floors. In niches cut
in the sides of the chambers or dromoi, which had been either
closed with slabs or walled up, were also found bones and
fragments of vases and terra-cotta statuettes. The 31 tombs
excavated in 1892 in almost every case contained more than two
skeletons, either laid at full length, or in a sitting posture. The
majority of objects discovered were of terra-cotta.
Some gold ornaments were obtained, including six gold
rosettes and two rings of gold leaf Of bronze there was a
Fig. 17. Polished ware tVoin lowest stratum ; Tiryns.
spear-head, a brooch, and a miiTor. There were necklaces of
bone and glass,
in the middle of one of which were two
hair seems to be indicated on the occiput; the arms are
engraved gems with devices of animals, like some from Mycenae.
stunted, stretched f )rward and bent, without hands : the tips of
On each of the handles of one vase from this group of tombs
the feet are visible. Instead of a chair two legs, a})parently
was incised a character not unlike the letter H, recalling the
gi'owing out of the body of the idol, su])i)oit it in a sitting
characters on the vase from Mycenae.
posture'." Some an.' of a moi'c adxanccd workmanship, and
one has a bird in \\cv lap.
The Heraeum. Before any excavations weri' here made
There is another scries of female tigui'es standing U))right,
portions of the great retaining wall of the uppermost terrace
holdinr a piff uniler the lefr ui'm. A elav fiuiu'e of the same
were conspicuous to a great distiuice. These
kind has been f)uiid at Kleusis, and hence they have been
consist of huge irregularly sha])ed blocks of
regarded as Demetei' idols. Cows of t eiTa-eotta were also
conglomerate heaped together in a rough
numei'ous.
(Vclopean style to support the upper tt'i-race
(iUtss. 'I'he alabastei' iVie/e inlai'l with blue glass pasti^ has
on which stood the older tem])le, destroyed by
been ali'eady mentioned.
fire in 4'2."} B.C. Three eoui'ses of these blocks
in general ai'e remaining.
It was this Cyclopean
wall that first drew the attention of Col.
Nauplia. At the eastei'n e\ti-emity of the plain of .\rgos
stands the impregnalde
roek of Palamidi (ralaniedes), "the
(Joi'dou to the s])ot, and led to the discovei'v of
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(iibi'altar of (Jreece," keeping ward o\ci- the rocky In^adland
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Idol ;
HenKHiiii. the Site. 1 rot. V\ aldstein, when (urectoi- ot the
on which is built .Xauplia.
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