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Mycenae : a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns (1878)

Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 306

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has done so with this silver cow-head, whose mouth, eyes and ears he had to plate, and,therefore, he first plated them with copper and then platedthe copper with gold. On the mouth the gold platingis very well preserved, but from the eyes and ears it hasalmost entirely disappeared. There can be no…

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