Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . No. 58.—Oenochoe with a long ftraight neck and a trefoilorifice. Size 1:4; depth about 8•50m. Still more interesting is the oenochoe No. 58, which isremarkable for its long tall handle and neck, and beautifulstraight trefoil mouth. Another highly interesting vase isrepresented by No, 59: it is of a dark-brown colour,has a flat bottom, and on each side a long vertically 34 THE SECOND CITY : TROY.
Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . No. 58.—Oenochoe with a long ftraight neck and a trefoilorifice. Size 1:4; depth about 8•50m. Still more interesting is the oenochoe No. 58, which isremarkable for its long tall handle and neck, and beautifulstraight trefoil mouth. Another highly interesting vase isrepresented by No, 59: it is of a dark-brown colour,has a flat bottom, and on each side a long vertically 34 THE SECOND CITY : TROY. [Chap. III. perforated excrescence for suspension with a string: eachside of the vase is adorned with incised leaf-patterns, hang-ing down vertically. All these terra-cottas are thoroughlybaked, and have evidently been exposed to an intense remarkable object found in the temple A is a vasewhich has been almost altogether melted into a shapelessmass, and thus testifies again to the white heat to which ithas been exposed in the No. 59.—Vase with vertically perforated excrescences andan incised ornamentation of leaf patterns. Size 1:3;depth about 8*5001. Among the objects found in the temple A I may lastlymention more than a hundred perforated clay cylinders, ofthe shape of those represented in I lias under Nos. i 200and 1201, p. 559. To the list of places given on pp. 559and 560 in Ilios^ where similar clay cylinders have beenfound, I may add the terramare of the Emilia, from whichseveral are preserved in the Museo Nazionale in theCollegio Romano at Rome. The British Museum con-tains also some such clav-cvlinders which were found in I Chap. III.] POTTERY IN THE SECOND TEMPLE. 135 Cyprus. Her Majesty Queen Olga, of Greece, who hasrepeatedly done me the honour to visit my Trojan collection,is of opinion that these clay-cylinders must probably haveserved as weights for the looms of weavers. I think HerMajesty is perfectly right, for they can hardly
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