. 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. still more elegant is the vase-cover No. 331, the handle of whichconsists, as it were, of two arches; its form can best be explained bycomparing it to two single handles put cross-wise, one over the other. * Wolfgang Helbig, Die Ttaliherin der Poehene;Leipzig, 1879, p. 17. Professor Helbig says,p. 6: The word Terramare or Terramara is anexpression corrupted from Terramarna by th
. 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. still more elegant is the vase-cover No. 331, the handle of whichconsists, as it were, of two arches; its form can best be explained bycomparing it to two single handles put cross-wise, one over the other. * Wolfgang Helbig, Die Ttaliherin der Poehene;Leipzig, 1879, p. 17. Professor Helbig says,p. 6: The word Terramare or Terramara is anexpression corrupted from Terramarna by thepeasants of the province of Parma, and signifiesoriginally every stratum of earth which is mixedwith organic matter, and is therefore appropriate for manuring. Now, as the soil of the Emiliacontains the remains of many old settlements,remains consisting of manufactures as well as ofdecomposed organic bodies, the denominationTerramare has in a more narrow sense beentransferred to the strata containing such re-mains. 374 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. and joined together by a very large nail. Both sorts of handle are veryabundant in the third city, as well as in the two succeeding pre-historic.
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