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 . No. 430. Large Oval Amphora with four handles. (1:5 actual sizeDepth, 26 ft.). No. 431. Amphora with four handles.(1:6 actual size. Depth, 26 to 33 ft.) No. 432. Oval Amphora, with four handles.(1: 6 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) 2 D 402 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. not oval, but rather of lenticular form; it is of a lustrous dark-greencolour, and has only one large handle, which joins
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 . No. 430. Large Oval Amphora with four handles. (1:5 actual sizeDepth, 26 ft.). No. 431. Amphora with four handles.(1:6 actual size. Depth, 26 to 33 ft.) No. 432. Oval Amphora, with four handles.(1: 6 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) 2 D 402 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. not oval, but rather of lenticular form; it is of a lustrous dark-greencolour, and has only one large handle, which joins the spout to the body, and two small ones on thenarrow sides of the latter. Ihave found in no museum any-thing to compare with theshape of these amphorae, butthat shape is frequent here. The hand-made terra-cottabottles, Nos. 434, 435, and 436,are of a dark-red or browncolour, of lenticular form, andresemble our hunting 434 has no handles, andis decorated with four breast-like excrescences ; the other twoare double-handled. No. 435is decorated round the neckwith a protruding band, orna-mented with vertical bottles of an iden-tical shape, found in ancientEgyptian tombs, are preservedin the Egyptian collections of the British Museum and the Louvre
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