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 . a peculiar process. is of opinion that it must have been produced by an abundanceof pine-soot, with which the vessels were coloured at the second baking 220 THE FIRST PRE-HISTORIC CITY. [Chap. V. in the open fire. On examining with a microscope the white chalkwith which the incised ornamentation is filled, he found in it the remainsof linen cords. Professor Landerer calls my attentio
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 . a peculiar process. is of opinion that it must have been produced by an abundanceof pine-soot, with which the vessels were coloured at the second baking 220 THE FIRST PRE-HISTORIC CITY. [Chap. V. in the open fire. On examining with a microscope the white chalkwith which the incised ornamentation is filled, he found in it the remainsof linen cords. Professor Landerer calls my attention to the fact, that the colour ofthe Hellenic terra-cotta vases is coal black, which was produced in thefollowing manner :— Before the baking, the vases were oiled over with tar(iriacra), or perhaps with the pissa asphalt of Herodotus,5 which occurson the island of Zacynthus. In the baking the rosin was changed intothe finest coal, which got attached to the exterior layer of clay of thevases and produced their black varnish. There are also terra-cotta vessels in the first city with four perfora-tions for suspension on each side in the rim, as is illustrated by theaccompanying engraving No. Another fine specimen of this sort is represented by the little hand-made globular tripod No. 44, which has not been covered over with fineclean clay, and has its surface therefore very rude and unequal. Gold-like or silver-like sparkles of the mica contained in the clay may be seenglittering on the outside as well as on the inside. The fracture at its baseis surrounded by an incised circle, which can leave no doubt that, afterthe vase was made, a piece of clay on which three feet were modelled 5 iv. 195: eiTj 85 av irav, okov Kal IvZatcvvdw 4k \lju,vr]s Kal vSaros irlcrcrav avacpcpo-]u avrbs iycb copeov • elal jxkv Kal irAevves atXijxvat avrSOt, 7) 8 Z>v fieylaTT) avriwv, ifidojxy}-Kovra ttoBuu irdvTr), fidQos 8e 8t6pyvt6s iarrt • isTavTTjv novrbv KaTtelcri, iir aKpcp jxv
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