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 . 484 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. doubt of this, from the fact that the end of the stalk of the key is bentround at a right angle, as in the case of the daggers. We read in Homerof a bronze key (/cXt/1?), with a handle encased in ivory, in the hand ofPenelope; but that was not like the key before us, because it was in theform of our pick-locks, having, instead of the head, a crooked ho
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 . 484 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. doubt of this, from the fact that the end of the stalk of the key is bentround at a right angle, as in the case of the daggers. We read in Homerof a bronze key (/cXt/1?), with a handle encased in ivory, in the hand ofPenelope; but that was not like the key before us, because it was in theform of our pick-locks, having, instead of the head, a crooked Withthis key—by means of a hole into which it was stuck—the bar (or bolt) ofthe door was pushed On the other hand, in the Iliad the Kkr]Uis merely the bolt or bar which fastens two folding Of such a/cXtiis I found four specimens in the third, the burnt city; two of them,which have been already engraved in the Introduction,3 I picked upat the gate itself, the larger one between the two first projections ofmasonry in coming up from the plain, the other between the two next. No. 820. Large Silver Vase found in the Royal House.(About 1 :3 actual size. Depth, 28 ft.) No. 819. Trojan Key in form of a Bolt.(Actual size. Depth, 28 ft.) 10 OJ. xxi. 6, 7 :s/Aero Se K\r)iS evaa/unreci xetP^ 7raXet?7>\T)v xaA/ceiTji/ • Kunvr] 5J i\4(pavros ivrjev. 1 Od. xxi. 47, 48 :i> 5e kXtjiS 7)K€, Ovpeoov 5 aveKoirrev ox^as TlTVaKO/ULfUT). Mr. Philip Smith observes to me that the form of the ancient Egyptian keys was similar to this.(See Wilkinsons Ancient Egyptians, vol. i. p. 354,No. 123, new edit.) 2 II. xiv. 167, 168: TrvKivas Se dvpas araQ^oicnv iirripcrevKA^tSt KpvirTrj tt]u 8 ov Oebs &AAos avyyev. 3 See Nos. 11 and 12, p. 36. Chap. VII.] THE THREE SMALLER TREASURES. 485 projections. Of this latter fckrjfc a piece is broken off. A third bronze(or copper ?) fckrjfe, found in a house of the third, the burnt city, at adepth of 28 ft., is represented under
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