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. 1550. Fragment of Flute of Bone. Their religion may be representedby a small marble foot, with a minuteperforation at the knee for suspension,which seems to have been a votiveoffering. This is not the only objectof marble which bears witness to theartistic capacities of the people;another which is probably intendedto represent a flower (No. 1551) has. No. 1551. Flower (?) in Marble. been fo
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. 1550. Fragment of Flute of Bone. Their religion may be representedby a small marble foot, with a minuteperforation at the knee for suspension,which seems to have been a votiveoffering. This is not the only objectof marble which bears witness to theartistic capacities of the people;another which is probably intendedto represent a flower (No. 1551) has. No. 1551. Flower (?) in Marble. been found, besides flattened spheresof marble, which may have beenweights. A remarkable feature in this stra-tum, b (No. 1540, 12; No. 1541, 5) isthe number of skeletons found in itat every variety of depth. Somewere on the rock itself, others underthe foundations of later houses, andin what seem to have been the floorsof inhabited dwellings. These inter-ments are peculiar to the stratum weare now considering, since as will beshown further on, none were madeduring the subsequent period repre-sented by the superposed debris. Theinterments on the east side of themound (No. 154-1, 12) were discoveredduring the excavations of 1857; therest were found last winter (1879).The bodies were buried with the facesdownwards, the heads towards the App. IV.] BY MR. FRANK CALVERT. 713 west, and the knees doubled up. Thehead of one was found resting on ahand-mill stone (No. 1552). Gene-
Size: 1313px × 1904px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectarchaeology, bookyear
