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 . Nos. 559-580. Awls and Needles of Bone and Ivory. (About half actual size. Depth, 22 to 33 ft.) Chap. VII.] AWLS OF BONE AND HORN. 431 sents a very primitive comb of bone, whose teeth may have been sawnwith the common saws of chalcedony. In the accompanying group, No. 559 is an object of ivory with threeperforations, which may have served as an ornament for 5G0-574 are need
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 . Nos. 559-580. Awls and Needles of Bone and Ivory. (About half actual size. Depth, 22 to 33 ft.) Chap. VII.] AWLS OF BONE AND HORN. 431 sents a very primitive comb of bone, whose teeth may have been sawnwith the common saws of chalcedony. In the accompanying group, No. 559 is an object of ivory with threeperforations, which may have served as an ornament for 5G0-574 are needles, or other implements of bone or ivory forfemale handiwork. As I have said before, similar needles of bone arefound in the caverns of Dordogne in France, as well as in the SwissLake-dwellings (see p. 262). They are also frequent in tombs in 575 to 580 are awls of bone, such as I have discussed before (seeibid). Nos. 581 to 584 are four more awls of bone. Nos. 585 to 587 No. 581. No. 582. No. 583. No. 584. No. 585. No. 586. No. Nos. 581-584. Awls of Bone. Nos. 585-587. Horns of Fallow Deer, sharpened and probably used as awls.(Nearly half actual size. Depth, 16 to 26 ft.) are, according to Professor Yirchow, horns of the fallow deer, sharpenedto a point, to be used as awls. Similar horns are frequent in the threeupper pre-historic cities of Hissarlik. Nos. 588-590 are boars tusks, of which the last two are sharpenedto a point. But it appears doubtful whether they were sharpenedartificially j they seem rather to have been sharpened by the boar him-self. Boars tusks are very frequent in the debris of all the pre-historic cities at Hissarlik. Professor Otto Keller5 remarks on the sub-ject: Boar-hunting is an object of great importance in the narrationsand plastic representations of the heroic ages. To judge from the boarstusks found, it was also the favourite occupation of our European Lake- 5 Die Entdeckung Ilions zu Hissarlik; Freiburg, 1875, p. 46. 432 THE
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