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 . PL iii. fig. k. 602 THE SIXTH OR LYDIAN CITY OF TROY. [Chap. X. and has two perforations. It is remarkable for the character or symbolincised on it, which so very frequently occurs on the Trojan whorls; and,curiously enough, also oyer the doors of three of the hut-urns found inthe ancient necropolis below a stratum of peperino near Marino,10 as wellas over the door of a similar hut-urn from the
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 . PL iii. fig. k. 602 THE SIXTH OR LYDIAN CITY OF TROY. [Chap. X. and has two perforations. It is remarkable for the character or symbolincised on it, which so very frequently occurs on the Trojan whorls; and,curiously enough, also oyer the doors of three of the hut-urns found inthe ancient necropolis below a stratum of peperino near Marino,10 as wellas over the door of a similar hut-urn from the same necropolis, preservedin the Eoyal Museum at Berlin. It also occurs seven times on the bottomsof vases found by Miss Sofie von Torma in her excavations in the Marosand Cserna valleys in Siebenbiirgen (Transylvania).11 Whorls are frequent in the sixth city; all of the very same slightly-baked, dull blackish clay of which all the vases consist. They have forthe most part the form of Nos. 1802, 1803, and 1805, and have generallyonly an incised linear decoration filled with white chalk; but there arealso some whorls ornamented with p|J or Lpj and other signs, which mayhave a symbolical
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