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

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PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 35
shield, the interior of which is filled with a mosaic of pieces of
blue alass.
36 PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION.
grams. Taking the heaviest ring as the normal standard
weight, it gives a unit of 135'8 grains Troy, or just the same
unit as I had long since pointed out as the standard in use
at Mycenae, deduced from the gold rings and spirals in the
acropolis graves K The scales (p. 8) show that gold was weighed.
The bracelet contains this unit six times. The weighings
made of the other ornaments, such as the gold discs, by my
Mr Frederic Seebohm, show that they were made on the
friend
same standard.
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Calauria.
Perched on a kind of saddle that connects the two highest
pine-clad peaks of the island stand the ruins of the sanctuary
of Poseidon. Here the Swedish archaeologists Wide and
Kjellberg have carried on excavations, and have made cleaithe
plan and arrangement of the various buildings on this
famous spot.
The objects brought to light were not important
but most of them were found in the earth which
intrinsically,
had been heaped up
in order to obtain a level area for the
precinct enclosing the temple of Poseidon. Here were brought
to light fragments of the various early kinds of pottery
Mycenean, Dipylon, Proto-Coiinthian, and Corinthian ^
BOEOTIA.
Orchomenus. On the slope of Mount Acontium at its
eastern end stood Oi-ehonieiius, defended on the south and
north by the steep sides of the ridge, at the foot of these declivities
by the C^'phisus on the south and the Melas on the
north, and on the east by the great Copaie marsh.
The citadel ai>proached by I'ock-hewn steps was fortitied on
the west and south ])y ininiense walls still standing to a height
f)f:}Ofeel.
On the slope above the town is the famous beehive tomb
known Irnni antii|uity as the Treasury of Minyas, just as the
gi-eat similar stiiieturf at .Mycenae was called he Treasni-y