Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . No. 1365. Large Vase, with four handles and impressed orna-mentation. (1: 8 actual size. Depth, 7 ft.) No. 1366. Jug with an impressed ornamentation.(1:4 actual size. Depth, 6 ft.) This vessel is decorated all round with four parallel bands, each of threelines, of a wave-pattern, rudely incised before the baking took place. Ofthe same colour, and also wheel-made, is the jug No. 1366, with three
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . No. 1365. Large Vase, with four handles and impressed orna-mentation. (1: 8 actual size. Depth, 7 ft.) No. 1366. Jug with an impressed ornamentation.(1:4 actual size. Depth, 6 ft.) This vessel is decorated all round with four parallel bands, each of threelines, of a wave-pattern, rudely incised before the baking took place. Ofthe same colour, and also wheel-made, is the jug No. 1366, with threesuch bands of incised wave-lines, and an orifice of trefoil form; as well asthe two-handled globular vase, No. 1367. No. 1368 marks a hand-made cup of the same colour and clay, withan incised ornamentation of zigzag lines, which seems to have been copiedfrom the decorations of tapestry or embroidered vestures. Cups of an identical shape were found in the excavations of Felsina at Chap. X.] RAMS HORNS ON VASES. 591. No. 1367. Globular Vase, with two handles. No. 1368. Cup with incised ornamentation of (1:4 actual size. Depth, 9 ft.) zigzag lines. (1 :4 actual size. Depth, 6 ft.) A cup of a similar shape, but without any decoration, found atCorneto in Italy, is in the Eoyal Museum at Berlin. Another very similarone, at least in shape, is in Prof. Virchows collection at Berlin. Therealso occur among the Lydian pottery plain hand-made one-handled cups ofthe same dull blackish colour. A number of cups of an identical formhave been found in the excavations at No. 1369 is a large one-handled hand-made vase of a dull yellow colour,with three long rams horns, which may perhaps explain the three or four
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