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 . It is decorated with two pro-jecting bands, of whichthe upper one is com-posed alternately of thefish-spine or herring-bone ornament and arow of circles, the lowerone also of fish-spines,to which, however, theprimitive artist has addeda stroke in another di-rection, in order to makehis decoration more va-ried and attractive. Allthis ornamentation looksas if it had been im- Ko. 156. Fragment of
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 . It is decorated with two pro-jecting bands, of whichthe upper one is com-posed alternately of thefish-spine or herring-bone ornament and arow of circles, the lowerone also of fish-spines,to which, however, theprimitive artist has addeda stroke in another di-rection, in order to makehis decoration more va-ried and attractive. Allthis ornamentation looksas if it had been im- Ko. 156. Fragment of a larsre Jar. (1 : i actual size. -i i , i Depth, about 42 ft.) pressed ; but on closer examination one findsthat it has been incised before the first baking of the jar. Prof. Sayceremarks to me regarding this fragment that the band with circles maybe compared with the necklace of the pre-historic head from Boujah,--nearSmyrna, now in the British Museum. This head displays a very strangeand barbarous style of art, and a very peculiar type of countenance. The large jars, ttlOol, are only once mentioned in Just as wefind them standing in rows in the store-rooms on the ground-floor of the. 4 A pithos of this kind, found in the third (theburnt) city, which I presented to my worthycollaborate™-, Professor Rudolf Virchow, for theRoyal Museum of Berlin, was so heavy thatfourteen of my very strongest workmen, whohad put it on two poles, laboured a whole dayin carrying it a distance of 150 yards. 5 Professor Virchow remarks to me that thebaking of the pithoi could also be effected withcow-dung in a closed pit. But I cannot accepthis theory, thoroughly baked pottery beingalways much more solid, pretty, and valuablethan slightly baked pottery. If, therefore, athorough baking of the immense pithoi, whoseclay is from 2 to 3 in. thick, could be obtainedin this way, the same could certainly have beenobtained at once for the small vessels whose clay has a thickness of from 3 to 4 mm.
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