Iranians and Greeks in South Russia - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

20 THE PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATIONS
implements of polished stone and of copper, and several copper and clay
vases. In each of the two other compartments there was another skeleton
covered with red paint, one female and one male : the furniture was
similar, but less rich. Farmakovski has inferred, from a mmute study
Fig. I.
of the objects in the tomb, that the principal personage was buried
with a tiara, of cloth or felt, on his head, and that this tiara was ornamented
in front by two golden diadems studded with golden rosettes ;
that the gold and silver rods probably belonged to a funeral canopy,
the edges of which were decorated with gold plaques ; that at the
interment the rods of the canopy were placed beside the body, and