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 . No. 4.—Small lustrous black Cup.(Size I : 4. Depth, 14-13 m) No. 5.—Lustrous black wheel-made Jug.(Size 1: 4. Depth, 14-15 m.) and is of capital interest to science, because it is wheel-made and, except the vase, p. 214, No. 23 in ///os, whichis manufiictured in like manner, it is the only entire wheel-made vase of the iirst city that I can boast of: fragmentsof wheel-made pottery sometimes occu
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 . No. 4.—Small lustrous black Cup.(Size I : 4. Depth, 14-13 m) No. 5.—Lustrous black wheel-made Jug.(Size 1: 4. Depth, 14-15 m.) and is of capital interest to science, because it is wheel-made and, except the vase, p. 214, No. 23 in ///os, whichis manufiictured in like manner, it is the only entire wheel-made vase of the iirst city that I can boast of: fragmentsof wheel-made pottery sometimes occur in the first ciry,but they are rare. Although the ruins of this first and most ancient Trojansettlement may be more than a thousand years older thanHomer, I cannot refrain from mentioning in this place,that the art of making pottery by means of the wheelexisted alrcadv as a handicraft and a profession at the timeof the poet; as vve see it in the admirable simile, in which. Chap. II.] THE POTTERS WHEEL IN HOMER. 35 in order to dcjiict the light and rapid movements of thedancing youths and virgins represented by Hephaestus onthe shield of Achilles, he compares these movements tothe rapid ro
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