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 Ivory, Bone, Wood, and Stone. 419 royal tombs on the Mycenae acropolis have come pieces with- out number.' Henceforward, the bone stilettoes and needles which we meet at Troy are replaced by ivory ones. That the fashion for ivory became general towards the end of the Mycenian period, may be inferred from the fact that the graves at Menidi Flc. 501. — Awls and bone stilettoes. Actual size. and Spata have yielded a much greater quantity of objects of this material than the royal tombs at Mycenae. The dead at Spata were very small folk indeed, in comparison with those buried within the slab-circle of the royal city of Agamemnon ; yet in the Spata sepulchre no less than seven hundred and ' SCHLiEMANN, Myctum.