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. 83. Rude Stone Hammer. (Half actual , 45 to 50 ft.) No. 85. Axe (-I Dioiite. (Half actual , 45 to 48 ft.) 7 L. Liudenschmit, Die Vatcrlandischen Alter-thumer, pp. 172, 173, 178, and Plate 8. 8 See the small collection of Thera antiquitiesin the French School at Athens. 9 Dr. G. Nicolucci, Armi ed Utensili in Tictradella Troade, pp. 16, 17. 238 THE FIRST PRE-HIS
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. 83. Rude Stone Hammer. (Half actual , 45 to 50 ft.) No. 85. Axe (-I Dioiite. (Half actual , 45 to 48 ft.) 7 L. Liudenschmit, Die Vatcrlandischen Alter-thumer, pp. 172, 173, 178, and Plate 8. 8 See the small collection of Thera antiquitiesin the French School at Athens. 9 Dr. G. Nicolucci, Armi ed Utensili in Tictradella Troade, pp. 16, 17. 238 THE FIRST PRE-HISTOKIC CITY. [Chap. V. two of the best specimens. Instruments like No. 82 may probably haveserved, as Nicolucci suggests, for smoothing the clay of the large vases,perhaps also for crushing the coarse particles contained in the clay, or forbruising the granite, with which the latter was mixed. No. 83 is a rudeprimitive hammer, both ends of which are much worn down, and testify tothe long use which has been made of it. From its large size and heavyweight we are induced to think that it was merely grasped by the hand,and could not have been fastened in a cloven wood handle. I repeatthat these are t
Size: 981px × 2548px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectarchaeology, bookyear
