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 330 Pkimitive Grkech: Mvcenian Art. to another, or rather between the two groups into which they have been chronologically divided, according to their contents and the relation they bear to one another. Close affinities are noticeable, on the one hand, between the first, second, and sixth graves, and on the other, between the second, fourth, and fifth. From the third and fourth pits have come gold ornaments, representing temple facades (Fig. iii); these, though found in distinct graves, were seemingly stamped in the same mould. The third and fifth graves have alone furnished circular gold plates intended to be glued on to the garments, from which they detached themselves when these crumbled into dust (Fig. 112). But what most of all character- izes and differentiates the two groups is the furniture of their respective graves : this in the first (1., II., V!.) mainly consists of clay vases, whilst in the second (III., IV., V.) metal predominates. If gold, silver, and bronze have been met in the graves of the first group, both ornaments and utensils are smaller in size and the designs simpler than in the second series. The single objects of Tombs I. and III. show that women alone were buried in them, and men in Tombs II., IV., V., and VI. Examination of the separate finds from the graves leads to the following result. Ear-rings, bracelets, and amber beads, which are abundantly found in the third grave, are absent from the first ; where, too, diadems, pendants, and crosses have much simpler patterns. Again, the