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 . their clay, they have a dull redcolour. They have suffered somuch from moisture, that, in spiteof every care and precaution, I could not get them out without breakingthem up completely ; but as I had collected all the fragments, I couldeasily restore both of them. The accompanying engraving,No. 59, represents the larger ofthe two, in which I found amongthe human ashes the bones of anembryo of s
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 . their clay, they have a dull redcolour. They have suffered somuch from moisture, that, in spiteof every care and precaution, I could not get them out without breakingthem up completely ; but as I had collected all the fragments, I couldeasily restore both of them. The accompanying engraving,No. 59, represents the larger ofthe two, in which I found amongthe human ashes the bones of anembryo of six months, from whichthe entire skeleton has been re-stored by my friend, the cele-brated surgeon Aretaeos of Athens,who maintains that the preserva-tion of these small bones was onlypossible on the supposition thatthe mother had made a prematurebirth and died from its effect;that her body was burnt, and theunburnt embryo put with herashes into the funeral urn, whereI found it. No. 60 is the engraving of alarge common hand-made vasewith two handles, the originalbrick colour of its clay having acquired a brownish hue by age. No. 61is a small hand-made red vase cf a very curious shape. No. 62 is a. No. 59 Tripod Urn, containing human ashes and thebones of an embryo. (About 1 : 8 actual , 51 i 228 THE FIEST PKE-HXSTOKXC CITY. [Chap. V, hand-made lustrous-black bowl, without tubular holes for suspension;bowls of this description are very common in the first city.
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