Mycenae : a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns (1878)
Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 254
points whichare thought to be the marks of the nails, are seldommissing; the artist has only added two more arms andcurved all of them. No. 240 represents an octopus orcuttle-fish (sepia), whose eight arms have been convertedinto spirals, the head with the two eyes being distinctlyvisible. No. 241… … No. 239. Plate of Gold. Sepulchre III. type is exceedingly frequent. Whether, as in the laterGreek art, the butterfly is here the symbol of immortality, as