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 . xa, ai^piw a^ovi a/ncpis. My friend Mr. W. S. W. Vaux calls myattention to the fact that the four-spokedchariot-wheel is characteristic of the earliestGreek coins. The early Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Assyrian wheels have six spokes. ThePersian Achaemenid sculptures show chariotswith eight-spoked wheels. Professor Sayceobserves: The wheels of the Hittite chariots,however, are represented on the E
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 . xa, ai^piw a^ovi a/ncpis. My friend Mr. W. S. W. Vaux calls myattention to the fact that the four-spokedchariot-wheel is characteristic of the earliestGreek coins. The early Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Assyrian wheels have six spokes. ThePersian Achaemenid sculptures show chariotswith eight-spoked wheels. Professor Sayceobserves: The wheels of the Hittite chariots,however, are represented on the Egyptian monu-ments with only four spokes. The wheels ofthe Egyptian chariots also sometimes have onlyfour, sometimes eight; and a Persian chariot-wheel given by Ker Porter has eleven. (SeeWilkinsons Ancient Egyptians, i. pp. 223-241,new edit., 1879.) In two of the earliest repre-sentations of chariots in Egypt, in the sametomb at Thebes, of the time of Amenhotep II.,two chariots have wheels with six spokes, butanother chariot has wheels with four. (VilliersStuart, Kile Gleanings, PI. xxxviii. xxxix. , 295.) 566 THE FOURTH CITY ON THE SITE OF TROY. [Chap. No. 1254. Disc of Ivory, with incised stars(2 :3 actual size. Depth, 16ft.) No. 1256.
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