. 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. h says in his foot-uote atp. 281 of Troy and its Remains: Few coinci-dences have struck us more than the comparisonof these helmet-crests with the frequent allusionsin Homer, especially where Hector of thedancing helmet-crest (Kopv6aio\osEKT(i)p) takesoff the helmet that frightened his child (//. , foil.): rapfiricras xaA/c({j t€ iSe \6^ov jTTTrtoxaTTjJ, Seiuhv air aKpoTdrris K6pv6os
. 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. h says in his foot-uote atp. 281 of Troy and its Remains: Few coinci-dences have struck us more than the comparisonof these helmet-crests with the frequent allusionsin Homer, especially where Hector of thedancing helmet-crest (Kopv6aio\osEKT(i)p) takesoff the helmet that frightened his child (//. , foil.): rapfiricras xaA/c({j t€ iSe \6^ov jTTTrtoxaTTjJ, Seiuhv air aKpoTdrris K6pv6os vevovra POTiaas. ( Scared at the brazen mail and horsehair plume,That waved terrific on the crested helm.) No such plumed helmets are found among theremains of pre-historic barbarous races. Theskeletons, with the helmets and lances besidethem, bear striking witness to a city taken bystorm. In Homer, the Trojans, under thecommand of the crested Hector, are valiantwith lances (^fiefiaSres iyxeiptnv, II. ii. 816-818). Chap. VIL] A TROJAN HELMET-CREST. 613 will see in the lower portion a round boss; this is the head of the coppernail by which the piece is transfixed: the point of the nail on the other. No. 979. (a) The upper ami {b) lower pieces of a Trojan Helmet-crest ((|)aAos) placed togetliCT. (c) A small piece of the Helmetremains adhering to the lower part of the Crest. A pin,fastened to the front of the part b, mny be seen protrudidg onthe opposite side. (About half actual size. Depth, about 23 ft.) No. 9-0. Great Copper Ring, found near the Helmet-crest. (About half actual size. Depjh, about 23 ft.) side is merely bent round. As to the place into which the Xocfioi LTnrovpc^;was inserted and fixed there can be no doubt, for the opening at the topof the ridge can have served no other purpose.^ By the side of onehelmet I found the copper ring No. 980, by the side of the other thefragment of a similar ring. I am at a loss to say how these rings couldhave been connected with
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