. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. 2. Oval Aiii|ih(jr;i, «ith four (1: 6 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) 2d 402 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. not oval, but rather of lenticular form; it is of a lustrous dark-green colour, and has only one large handle, which joins the spout to the body, and two small ones on thenarrow sides of the latter. Ihave found in no museum any-thing to compare with theshape of these amp
. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. 2. Oval Aiii|ih(jr;i, «ith four (1: 6 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) 2d 402 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. not oval, but rather of lenticular form; it is of a lustrous dark-green colour, and has only one large handle, which joins the spout to the body, and two small ones on thenarrow sides of the latter. Ihave found in no museum any-thing to compare with theshape of these amphorae, butthat shape is frequent here. The hand-made terra-cottabottles, Nos. 434, 435, and 436,are of a dark-red or browncolour, of lenticular form, andresemble our hunting 434 has no handles, andis decorated with four breast-like excrescences ; the other twoare double-handled. No. 435is decorated round the neckwith a protruding band, orna-mented with vertical bottles of an iden-tical shape, found in ancientEgyptian tombs, are preserved in the Egyptian collections of the British Museum and the Louvre. The collection of Cypriote antiquities in the British Museum also con-. No. 433. Lustrous dark-green Amphora, of lenticular form,?with three handles. (1: 4 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) No. 435. No. 434.
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