. 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. least of the old inhabitants continued to live. We shall,therefore, call this settle-ment the Fifth Pre-historicCity of Troy. Whether the oldsettlement was conquered, orpeacefully taken possession ofby the new settlers, must forever remain uncertain. Atall events, there are notraces of a catastrophe; be-sides, as we have seen in thepreceding pages, the inhabit-ants of the fourth city canon
. 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. least of the old inhabitants continued to live. We shall,therefore, call this settle-ment the Fifth Pre-historicCity of Troy. Whether the oldsettlement was conquered, orpeacefully taken possession ofby the new settlers, must forever remain uncertain. Atall events, there are notraces of a catastrophe; be-sides, as we have seen in thepreceding pages, the inhabit-ants of the fourth city canonly have had partial worksof defence; they had noregular city walls, like theirpredecessors. It is difficult to say whetherthe inhabitants of the fifthcity had walls. I certainlybrought to light small worksof defence in several places,but these may equally wellhave belonged to the sixthas to the fifth city. It maybe that the fifth city hadregular walls, but that these were destroy el by the next settlers, or evenby the builders of the later Aeolic Ilium. In describing those of the objects found which deserve particular atten-tion, I begin again with the owl-headed vases, which in all probability must. No 1291. Vase with two breasts and two wing-like handles; theCover has an owls face. (1:4 actual size. Depth, 13 ft.) Chap. IX.] OWL-PIEADED FEMALE VASES. 575 have had a sacred character. All of them, without exception, are wheel-made,of a rude fabric, and unpolished} One which I represent under No. 1291has only two female hreastsand two upright very conspicuous owlsface is modelled on the cover,which has a crest-like not these strange vase-covers have been copied fromthe ancient helmets ? Of muchinferior fabric is the vaseNo. 1292, on which the owlsface has been rudely modelled ;in fact, the inability of theprimitive potter was such thathe made the beak above theeyes. On this vase, besidesthe breasts, the vulva is indi-cated : to this vase belongs aflat
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