Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . therefore difficult toadmit that it could have existed in Asia Minor in theremote antiquity to which the ruins of Troy belong. Asusual, the mouthpiece, which is here uncommonly large, ison the hinder part, and is joined to the back by a handle;there is an incised arrow-like orna-ment on the neck and on bothsides. The taste for animal vases hassurvived in the Troad, and theTurkish potters shops i
Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . therefore difficult toadmit that it could have existed in Asia Minor in theremote antiquity to which the ruins of Troy belong. Asusual, the mouthpiece, which is here uncommonly large, ison the hinder part, and is joined to the back by a handle;there is an incised arrow-like orna-ment on the neck and on bothsides. The taste for animal vases hassurvived in the Troad, and theTurkish potters shops in the townof the Dardanelles abound withvases in the form of lions, horses,donkeys, &c. No. 70 is, no doubt, a headlessfemale idol, of which the arms arealso broken off: in its present stateit resembles very much the com-mon Trojan stone idols.* Thebreast is ornamented by two incised lines which cross eachother ; at the place of their juncture is a concave circle, whichis perhaps meant to represent an ornament: to the rightand left of it are two short incised strokes, and seven moresuch below the cross band; beneath them is an incisedornamentation resembling a pear, but no doubt intended to. No. 70.—Headless female Idol of terra-cotta, with an incised actual size ; depth about 9 m. * See Jlios^ pp. 334-336, Nos. 204-220. 142 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. represent the delta or vulva of the goddess; it has a longvertical stroke in the midst; the space in the vulva is filledup with seventeen small strokes. An idol (?) much ruder still is represented by the figureNo. 71 ; the projections to the right and left are doubtlessmeant to indicate arms. No. 72 is the head of a verycurious terra-cotta idol, the lower part of which was un-fortunately not found. Very characteristic are the immenseowl-eyes, between which a vertical stroke is no doubt meantto denote the beak: the horizontal stroke above it doubt-
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