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nos, such as adorned the halls of Alcinoüs, is recognized in a similar ornamentation (fig. 39) in the palace at Tiryns. A gold cup (fig. 40) from Mycenae, with doves above the handles, reminds us of the golden cup of Nestor described in Λ, 632.
Fig. 40.Gold Cup from Mycenae
40. Armor.[1]The discovery of swords and spear-points, as well as battle scenes and hunting scenes portrayed on Mycenaean objects, furnishes us a fair picture of the armor of Mycenaean times. The large Mycenaean shield (fig. 34 and fig. 41) extended from
- ↑ Heinrich, Troja bei Homer und in der Wirklichkeit, pp. 22–27. Cf. Reichel, Homerische Waffen, 1901; Ridgeway, Early Age of Greece, Vol. I, pp. 299–326; Tsountas and Manatt, The Mycenaean Age, pp. 191–216; Helbig, Das homerische Epos aus den Denkmälern erläutert, 1887; Max Müller, Asien und Europa nach altägyptischen Denkmälern, 1893, pp. 353 ff.
