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A manual of Greek archaeology (1886)

Collignon, Maxime, 1849-1917, Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 · London : Cassell Pub. Co. · leaf 20

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, done in repousse, crowns, cups, funeralmasks, imitating the human vi3age, and placed on thefaces of the dead ; arms, objects in bronze, crystal, I * No mention is here made of the monuments belonging to the ageof stone, which have been found in Greece, as in the whole of Europe. |Compare Dumont,… … Fig. i.—funeral mask in gold.(Found at Mycenae.) thousand separate pieces. There is but little iron ;the metals most frequently used arc gold, copper, andbronze. 8 GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY. Some of the objects evidently show that they wereimported from the East; such is the model of thetemple with doves,…

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