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 . gnet-cylinder. That exact imitations ofBabylonian cylinders were actuallymade and used at Hissarlik we knowfrom the results of Dr. Schliemannsdiggings. Besides an unadorned cy-linder of stone, Dr. Schliemann dis-covered, at a depth of 29£ ft., acylinder of blue felspar, on whicha native artist has cut rude represen-tations of a flower and a cartouche(No. 1522, No. 503, p. 410). Theflower is of
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 . gnet-cylinder. That exact imitations ofBabylonian cylinders were actuallymade and used at Hissarlik we knowfrom the results of Dr. Schliemannsdiggings. Besides an unadorned cy-linder of stone, Dr. Schliemann dis-covered, at a depth of 29£ ft., acylinder of blue felspar, on whicha native artist has cut rude represen-tations of a flower and a cartouche(No. 1522, No. 503, p. 410). Theflower is of the old Babylonian type,but the cartouche reminds us ofEgypt, and may possibly contain thename of the owner, symbolized bywhat looks like a flower tied by astring. The tied string, it may beadded, has the shape of the Cypriotecharacter which denotes ro. Howeverthis may be,in these twocylinders wehave mani-fest indica-tions of Ba-bylonian in-fluence. Thisinfluence de-clined afterthe rise of As-syria in the / No. 1523. Design upon the fourteenth Cylinder. century , and was succeeded by theinfluence of Assyrian art, as modifiedand propagated by the may, therefore, perhaps assign. No. 1522. Cylinder of Felspar.
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