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 . a fact explained by the many hundreds of vases with a convexbottom. It is doubtful whether the object of gneiss No. 631 represents ahammer; it has a furrow round the middle, and may have served as aweight for a loom or a door. 3 Vincenzo Crispi, 11 Museo d Antichita di * Joseph Hampel, Antiquites prtfiistoriqucs deCagliari; Cagliari, 1872, PI. i. No. 3. la Hongrie, PI. aciii. fig. 34. Chap. VII
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 . a fact explained by the many hundreds of vases with a convexbottom. It is doubtful whether the object of gneiss No. 631 represents ahammer; it has a furrow round the middle, and may have served as aweight for a loom or a door. 3 Vincenzo Crispi, 11 Museo d Antichita di * Joseph Hampel, Antiquites prtfiistoriqucs deCagliari; Cagliari, 1872, PI. i. No. 3. la Hongrie, PI. aciii. fig. 34. Chap. VII.] MASSIVE HAMMERS OK BRUISERS. 441 The very large hammer No. 632, which, according to Mr. Davies, is ofporphyry, has round its middle the marks of the rope by which it wasattached to the handle; but as the stone weighs more than fifty poundstroy, the handle must have been very thick: its upper end seems to showlong use. Prof. Virchow suggests that this instrument has probably beena club for crushing and bruising granite and silicious stone, for mixingit with the clay for making pottery. No. 633 is of diorite, of a conicalshape, and well polished; both extremities show long use; it was probably. No. 632. Large Hammer of Porphyry. Depth, 26 ft.) (1 : 4 actual size. Depth, 33 ft.) used only as a pestle or bruiser. No. 634 is one of the finer specimens ofthe common hammers, which occur by many hundreds in all the fouilowest pre-historic cities, and are particularly plentiful in the third andfourth cities, for in these two cities alone I could have collected somethousands of them. Mr. Davies, who examined all the specimens of themcontained in my collection at the South Kensington Museum, declaresthem to consist of diorite, porphyry, serpentine, hornblende, gneiss, brownhaematite, silicious rock, or gabbro-rock. Most of these rude stonehammers bear the marks of long use, but a great many others appear tobe quite new. Similar rude hammers are found in almost all countries,but certain
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