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VAPHIO , an See also:

ancient site in See also:Laconia, See also:Greece, on the right See also:bank of the Eurotas, some 5 M. S. of See also:Sparta. It is famous for its " See also:bee-hive " See also:tomb, excavated in 1889 by Dr Tsountas. This consists of a walled approach, or bpbuos, about 97 ft. See also:long, leading to a vaulted chamber some 33 ft. in See also:diameter, in the See also:floor of which the actual See also:grave was cut. The See also:objects found here and transferred to the See also:National Museum in See also:Athens include a large number of gems and See also:amethyst beads, together with articles in See also:gold, See also:silver, See also:bronze, See also:iron, See also:lead, See also:amber and crystal. But by far the finest of them are two See also:golden cups decorated with scenes in See also:relief, picturing the See also:capture of bulls. These See also:form perhaps the most perfect See also:works of " Mycenaean " or " Minoan " See also:art which have survived. It seems likely that the Vaphio cups do not represent a See also:local art but were imported from See also:Crete, which at that See also:early See also:period was far ahead of See also:main-See also:land Greece in See also:artistic development. The tomb, which probably belonged to Amyclae rather than to Pharis, as is commonly stated, is now almost entirely destroyed. See C. Tsountas, 'E µepls 'ApXaw oyc,$ (1889), 136–172; J. G.

Frazer, See also:

Pausanias's Description of Greece, iii. 135 f. (with full bibliography); W. Ridgeway, The Early See also:Age of Greece, i. 26—28; R. C. Bosanquet, See also:Journal of Hellenic Studies (1904), See also:xxiv. 317 ff. ; A. Riegl, Jahreshefte d. Cistern See also:arch. Institutes (1906), ix.

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