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History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 482

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with, hut silver less rarely. Tiryns and Mycenae have an abundance of bronze, compounded with ten to thirteen per cent, of tin. As will be observed, the proportion is much larger than at Troy ; it is that which gives Fig. 504. — Gold cup. Length, 19 c. the best alloy, and will scarcely ever be… … Fig. 505. — Silver vases. Height, 20 c., and 17 c. cannot form a better notion of the prodigious wealth displayed here than in picturing to oneself the royal body, as it lay in the pit, surrounded by friends and relatives, clothed in its regalia made up of diadem, mask, pectoral, leggings around…

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