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 426 Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. {Fig. 504). Next in order are two silver vases, with covers, and vertical tubular holes at the sides instead of handles (Fig. 505). Their shape is that of the Egyptian canopi; but the appendages at the sides, which so often recur on Trojan ware, prove that these were manufactured on the spot (Fig. 436). The vases, whether of gold or silver, were all found, along with other ornaments, under a heap of ashes.' The pieces were stuck F re. 507. — Gold diadem. One-lh]td of acluitl size. to one another, and in the midst of them was a bronze key, which has been identified as that of the treasure-coffer. This is what Schliemann calls the " Treasure of Priam " ; but his account of how he discovered it is by no means clear.^ The objects would seem to have been stowed away just before the catastrophe, in the depth of the mud wall which constituted the upper part of • Schliemann, Ilios. ^ Ibid.