Nos. 309, 310.
Sceptres of silver plated with gold, with handles of rock-crystal.
Sepulchre III. Size 1:3, about.
a. A ball of gold found separately, but belonging to the handle.
I call the reader's attention to the size of these presumed sceptres, which is here only about one-third of the actual size. I beg further to observe that the enormous gold plated silver rods were doubtless stuck in wooden staves covered with gold plate. For the abundance here of such staves with gold covers we can have no better testimony than the numerous tubes of gold plate found in these tombs, many of them still containing charred remnants of the wood which they once covered; a few even contained remnants of the wood pretty well preserved.
Further I found fifteen perforated beads of brown agate, like No. 311, which evidently belong to a necklace; also a number of beads like No. 312: further the magnificent lentoid gem of sardonyx (No. 313), on which are represented two men, the one sitting, the other standing. The latter seems to seize the former with his right hand by the hair, while he thrusts with his left a long sword into his breast.
Very characteristic is the immense shield which we see on the standing man's back, and which resembles two shields joined at the border; it is not unlike the shield which we see on the fallen warrior, p. 174, No. 254.
No. 314 is a whorl-like ornament of black agate, with a spiral ornamentation on its lower side; it has no perforation.
