. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the 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. 233. Terra-cotta Vase. (1: 5 actual size. Depth,26 ft.) The ornament on the body of the vase re-sembles a character found in the alphabets of Caria andPamphylia, and in the Hittite inscriptions, as well asone form of the character go or ko in the Cypriotesyllabary. Vase with owls face, (1:4 actual , about 26 ft.) Chap. VIL] OWL VASES AND COVERS. 343 No. 234 represents another
. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the 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. 233. Terra-cotta Vase. (1: 5 actual size. Depth,26 ft.) The ornament on the body of the vase re-sembles a character found in the alphabets of Caria andPamphylia, and in the Hittite inscriptions, as well asone form of the character go or ko in the Cypriotesyllabary. Vase with owls face, (1:4 actual , about 26 ft.) Chap. VIL] OWL VASES AND COVERS. 343 No. 234 represents another hand-made vase, like No. 227, but it hasbeen so much exposed to the intense heat of the conflagration, that it isdifficult to recognize its original No. 235. Vase with owls face, found in the Royal IIo;is3.(1: 8 actual size. Depth, 23 ft.) No. 236. Vase Cover with owls (About half actual size. Depth, 27 ft.) No. 235 represents probably tho most remarkable hand-made owl-headed vase I ever found at Hissarlik. I discovered it at a depth of8^ metres, or 28 ft., on the ground-floor in the royal house of the thirdor burnt city; it is of a lustrous-brown colour, and 25 in. high. Inspite of the intense heat to which it had been exposed in the conflagration,it is not thoroughly baked. It has two breasts and two handles : a verypretty necklace is represented around the neck by a series of grooves andprojecting circles. The beauty of this vase is enhanced by the scarfwhich we see in relief across its body. No. 236 represents another of those pretty lustrous dark-yellow vase-covers with owl-faces, of which we showed one under No. 231. The coverbefore us was found in a large red urn at a depth of 27 ft., on thegreat wall close to the gat
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