. 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. bed for casting a similarbattle-axe. See Joseph Hampel, Catalogue de VExposition prehistorique des Musees de Province et des Collec-tionsparticulieresde la Honjrie, Buda-Pesth, 1876,pp. 139, 140, Nos. 146, 150, 152; and JosephHampel, Antiquit^s prehistoriques de la Ilongric,Esztergom, 1876, PI. vii. Nos. 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13,14, 15. Chap. VIL] BRONZE KNIVES AND LANCE. 507 holes for the pins
. 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. bed for casting a similarbattle-axe. See Joseph Hampel, Catalogue de VExposition prehistorique des Musees de Province et des Collec-tionsparticulieresde la Honjrie, Buda-Pesth, 1876,pp. 139, 140, Nos. 146, 150, 152; and JosephHampel, Antiquit^s prehistoriques de la Ilongric,Esztergom, 1876, PI. vii. Nos. 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13,14, 15. Chap. VIL] BRONZE KNIVES AND LANCE. 507 holes for the pins by which it was fastened in the shaft. It was pickedup by the side of one of the two entire skeletons of men, which I found inthe room of a house to the east of the plateau of the Tower, immediately 966 Nos. 965-967. Three Bronze Knives, of which two are of a very remarkable 965. Actual size. Depth, 24 ft. No. 966. Actual size. Depth, 24 ft. No. 967. 2 : 3 actual size. Deplh, 23ft. to the north of the nine jars (see Plan I., of Troy, the place marked e s),and which appear to be those of warriors, as they had helmets on theirheads. One of the skulls was fractured, the other was uninjured; but. No. 968. Bronze Lance of a Trojan Warrior, found beside his Skeleton. (Half actual size. Depth, 23 ft.) this latter was also fractured on its way to London. Professor Yirchow,who kindly recomposed both skulls and made the accompanying excellentgeometrical drawings of them (Nos. 969-972 and Nos. 973-976), has sentme the following interesting note. 508 THE THIED, THE BURNT of the Two Skulls (m Millimetres). [Chap. VII. Length of the skull Greatest breadth of the skull Auricular height Breadth of the frontal bone at its Height of the face Breadth „ „ of lower jaw Orbit, height „ breadth Nose, height „ breadth Heightofthe alveolar apophysis of the upper jawHorizontal circumference of the skull Nos. 969-972. 193 132-5?11090104-5 47?2315521 Nos. 973-976.
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