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 the heights of Bunarbashi with "steep" aud "windy" Troy, Nikolaïdes, in the, 1894, adds a new one remarkably unique. From Grave IV on the acropolis of Mycenae, a grave which is the oldest of the shaft-tombs, was taken a silver vase

(Mycenae.)

whereon was pictured a battle scene. The vase is shattered, but one large fragment and several smaller ones are preserved. The engraving was obscured by a thick accretion of oxide; hence this most interesting relic lay in the National Museum unnoticed. Koumanoudes was the first to bring the scenes to light, and Tsountas to give them to the world in the