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 . the text haserroneously SwpiKio instead of AapciKw). t Diod. XL 26, 3, informs us that Damareta, wife of Gelon king ofSyracuse, received from the Carthaginians, after the conclusion of peace,a golden wreath of 100 talents = 2*62 kilogr., nearly 5^ lbs. further tells us that Gelon consecrated to the Delphian Apollo,from gratitude for the victory, a golden tripod of 16 talents = 4i9
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 . the text haserroneously SwpiKio instead of AapciKw). t Diod. XL 26, 3, informs us that Damareta, wife of Gelon king ofSyracuse, received from the Carthaginians, after the conclusion of peace,a golden wreath of 100 talents = 2*62 kilogr., nearly 5^ lbs. further tells us that Gelon consecrated to the Delphian Apollo,from gratitude for the victory, a golden tripod of 16 talents = 4i9 i gr.(about 9-ioths of a lb.) Chap. III.] CROUCHING HOG OF IVORY. I15 poet Philemon,* towards the end of the fourth, or at thebeginning of the third century , probably to expressthe value of an Egyptian copper-talent. Besides Nicanderof Thyatira, Pollux and Eustathius give the value andweight of the small gold talent as three staters, f Thelast writer also calls it Macedonian, but the reason of thisdenomination is uncertain. There were further found in the temple A some curiousobjects of ivory, of w^hich I represent five under Nos. object No. 40, of which two examples were found,. No. 40.—Knife-handle of Ivory. Size 2:3; depth about Ssom. represents a crouching hog, rudely carved ; it is very similarto a like object of ivory given in Ilios^ p. 423, No. 517,which I supposed at the time to have been used in someway or other in weaving. But I now rather think thatall these three crouching hogs have been used as knifehandles, because that is certainly the purpose of two verysimilar objects, in the form of lions, which are in theAssyrian collection in the Louvre. I think this the rather,as the back part of our ivory hog, which is broken offhere, but is complete in figure 517 in Ilios, runs out intosomething like a lish-taii, has a vertical opening, and isperforated horizontally. Much more difficult is it to determine the use of the * Etymol. M. under ruXavrov : to r
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