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| Aerial view of Section ΒΕ. From top of adjacent building ... Horizontal (normal) ... July 1998 |
| Plan of location of Mycenaean chamber tombs in section ΒΕ ... PD 2767 Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Ostrakon of the Athenian general Nikias ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean enthroned goddess figurine ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean painted pottery from the chamber tombs in section ΒΕ ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean painted pottery from the chamber tombs in section ΒΕ ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean bronze spear-point and bronze dagger with gilded rivets ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean small beads of various materials (shell, faience, and carnelian) ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Mycenaean small beads of various materials (shell, faience, and carnelian) ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| 1998 excavation photograph ... Horizontal (normal) ... Summer 1998 |
| Complete. Socket end mended. Cracked along midrib. Slight corrosion.
Broad rounded midrib along axis from socket, tapering to point. Two lateral nail holes in socket to fasten shaft.
Bronze. Mycenaean ... 7 July 1998 |
| Broken in three fragments: at handle attachment and midway along hilt. Upper part of blade cracked. Three rivets preserved along hilt, two on widest area of blade. Seven complete studs (+one fragmentary) ... 7 July 1998 |
| Intact. Small chips around edges.
String hole through long axis. Slightly domed upper surface with engraved lines in shape of beetle. Curved line across middle separating head from back. Bisecting line ... 24-30 July 1998 |
| Worn.
Cylindrical bead, pierced for suspension; hole larger on one face than the other.
Pink stone with white veins. Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. From sieving. in ziplock polyethylene bag inside a plastic box ... July 1998 |
| Ten beads: five are complete, three are cracking and peeling, and the other two have lost about half of their volume. The surface in general is very friable.
Spherical beads pierced through the center ... 24 July 1998 |
| Seventeen beads: eight appear to be complete; the other nine are partially truncated.
Long tear drop shape with vertical grooves, pierced through center.
White creamy glass paste. Finished Mycenaean ... 24 July 1998 |
| Seventeen small beads. Four are intact. Twelve others are friable and iridescent. The smallest one was broken during handling.
Roundish beads, some more flattened than others, pierced through the center ... 24 July 1998 |
| A total of about 500 small beads in a very good state of preservation .
Fifty are paired (still stuck together from manufacture). Thirty-one are kept separated in a bag, the others are strung on a nylon ... 24 July 1998 |
| Fifty-nine spherical beads, generally well preserved, but five have friable surfaces.
Pierced through the center.
Creamy yellow glass paste. Finished Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. Very fragile. Do not handle ... 24 July 1998 |
| A series of twenty-nine carnelian beads of various sizes and shapes, all intact.
The eight smallest are roughly cut and rounded. Eighteen have an elongated elliptical shape, each one slightly different ... 24 July 1998 |
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