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 . No. 333. Tripod-vessel in the form of a mole.(1:4 actual size. Doptb, 23 to 26 ft.) No. 339. Yase in the form of a hedgehog, with fourshort feet. (1:3 actual size. Depth, 23 ft.). No. 340. Vessel in the form of a hippopotamus.(About 2 : 3 actual size. Depth, 23 ft.) here over the neck. The only ornamentation of this vessel consists of five horizontal incisions on each side. No. 340 is of lustro
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 . No. 333. Tripod-vessel in the form of a mole.(1:4 actual size. Doptb, 23 to 26 ft.) No. 339. Yase in the form of a hedgehog, with fourshort feet. (1:3 actual size. Depth, 23 ft.). No. 340. Vessel in the form of a hippopotamus.(About 2 : 3 actual size. Depth, 23 ft.) here over the neck. The only ornamentation of this vessel consists of five horizontal incisions on each side. No. 340 is of lustrous-red terra-cotta; it has four feet, and can hardly represent anything else than a hippopotamus. It is hollow ; on its left side are the most distinct marks of its having been joined to another vessel, which of course must have had an identical form ; the neck of the twin vessel may have been in the middle between the two hippo-potami. The existence of the figures of hippopotami in the third, the burnt city, at a depth of 23 ft. below the surface, is extremely remarkable—nay, astonishing; for this animal, as is well known, is no longer met with even in Upper Egypt, and occurs only in the rivers in the interior of Africa. In the time of the Old Empire, however(about 5000-3500, according to Mariette), the hippopotamus stilllived in the Delta, as is shown by a painti
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