. 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. I j_ T7I 1 • • -r> 1 i ii • • J ii bead. (Half actual size. 01 bant Eusebio, m liome ; but this is as yet the Depth, about is ft.) first specimen of such a horned vase found in Latium. Chronologically, therefore, it belongs to the Bronze age in theterramare of the Emilia, and perhaps to the Stone age in the Lake-dwellings on the other side of the Po; but it belongs to the first Ironage
. 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. I j_ T7I 1 • • -r> 1 i ii • • J ii bead. (Half actual size. 01 bant Eusebio, m liome ; but this is as yet the Depth, about is ft.) first specimen of such a horned vase found in Latium. Chronologically, therefore, it belongs to the Bronze age in theterramare of the Emilia, and perhaps to the Stone age in the Lake-dwellings on the other side of the Po; but it belongs to the first Ironage in the tombs and fields in the district of Bologna, and in the tombsof Volterra; to the Bronze age, in the fields of the Abruzzi; and to theBronze age, also, on the Esquiline.^ These two-horned vase handles have called forth many learned dis-cussions, but it never yet occurred to any one that they might be theinheritance of the Lydian vase-handles with cow-heads. I feel sure thatthe explanation I now offer will at once be universally adopted. I mayadd that cow-heads never occur in any of the first five pre-historic cities ofHissarlik; and also that among the pottery from Chiusi in the British. * L. Pigorini and Sir John Lubbock, op. cit. No. 6. Pigorini, in the BuUettino di Paletnologia Italiana of January 1878, p. 16. 600 THE SIXTH OR LYDIAN CITY OF TROY. [Chap. X. Museum there are some terra-cotta vases having handles ornamented withheads of horses or cows.^ I remind the reader that cow-heads of gold or terra-cotta, and par-ticularly those of gold, are very frequent at Mycenae, where I foundfifty-six solely of the shape represented in my Mycenae, p. 218, Nos. 329,330, and numerous fragments of others. They also occur of bronze inGermany. Thus, for instance. Professor Virchow calls my attention to asmall two-wheeled chariot of bronze in his collection, which is decoratedwith three cow-heads and as many birds; also to a three-wheeled chariotof bronze, decorated with two
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