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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 24, 2021 15:05:13 GMT -5
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 24, 2021 15:05:55 GMT -5
A partial catalogue of the treasure is approximately as follows:
a copper shield a copper cauldron with handles an unknown copper artifact, perhaps the hasp of a chest a silver vase containing two gold diadems (the "Jewels of Helen"), 8750 gold rings, buttons and other small objects, six gold bracelets, two gold goblets a copper vase a wrought gold bottle two gold cups, one wrought, one cast a number of red terracotta goblets an electrum cup (mixture of gold, silver, and copper) six wrought silver knife blades (which Schliemann put forward as money) three silver vases with fused copper parts more silver goblets and vases thirteen copper lance heads fourteen copper axes seven copper daggers other copper artifacts with the key to a chest
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 24, 2021 15:07:42 GMT -5
Sophia Schliemann (née Engastromenos) wearing the "Jewels of Helen" excavated by her husband, Heinrich Schliemann, in Hisarlik (photograph taken ca. 1874)
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