Mycenae : a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns (1878)
Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 390
ch weonly here recognise the exact use.No doubt this sword has had a woodensheath, which must havx been orna-mented with the long gold plate, with a ring and muchresembling the shape of a man, which we see to the right ofit. This gold plate \z similar to that represented underNo. 369.1 The sheath… … No. 459.Small Bone, with the fragment of a splendidly ornamented GoldRibbon. Sepulchre I. Size 3: 8. •■• See p. 305. t See p. 253. 1876.] WONDERFULLY ORNAMENTED SWORDS. 3^3 for its wooden sheath mustevidently have been adorned,in its entire length, on bothsides, with a series of thoselarge golden…
