. 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. JJo. 1289. A Whorl with three animals.(Actual size. Depth, 10 ft.). No. 1290. A Whorl with curious signs. (Actual , 10 ft.) are no doubt intended to be stags with long horns; the third is perhapsa roe. In the decoration of the other whorl there is nothing intelligible. 574 THE FIFTH PRE-HISTORIC CITY OF TROY. [Chap. IX. We continue to find Iiere the same patterns of pottery, hand
. 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. JJo. 1289. A Whorl with three animals.(Actual size. Depth, 10 ft.). No. 1290. A Whorl with curious signs. (Actual , 10 ft.) are no doubt intended to be stags with long horns; the third is perhapsa roe. In the decoration of the other whorl there is nothing intelligible. 574 THE FIFTH PRE-HISTORIC CITY OF TROY. [Chap. IX. We continue to find Iiere the same patterns of pottery, hand-made orwheel-made, but they manifest a general decline. We also find here alarge quantity of plain wheel-made pottery, which looks quite modernwhen compared with that of the preceding city. Moreover, the mode oflife of the people to which this stratum belongs was entirely differentfrom that of their predecessors : instead of throwing all their kitchen-remains on the floor of their rooms, they carried them away and shotthem from the mound, since we but very rarely see in this stratum ofdebris the shells of oysters or mussels, which visitors may see in suchreally stupendous masses in the houses of the fourth city. Now that a people should on a sudden have completely c
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