No. 250. A leaf-pattern in Gold Plate. Sepulchre III.
No. 251. A Star in Gold Plate. Sepulchre III.
No. 252. A Plate of Gold. Sepulchre III.
I suppose that all these golden leaves are miniature copies of shields, for though there were shields with a central boss,[280] yet the majority of them were smooth (ἐΐση)[281]: further most shields were round (εὔκυκλος),[282] and many of them, if not all, were works of art and beautifully ornamented.[283] We further find around the Homeric shields a border (ἄντυξ), which may have been sometimes single, but which certainly was usually treble,[284] and such a border we also find represented on several of these golden plates.
HERCULES AND THE NEMEAN LION.