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 . cover. That may be so, but all therest are certainly seals. The most curious of all is the terra-cotta seal No. 499, which has aperforation for suspension. Its handle has on two sides an incisedherring-bone ornamentation, and on the third side, the one to the rightin the cut, an incised inscription, in which, as Professor Sayce says, characters also found in the Cypriote syllabary can be easily
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 . cover. That may be so, but all therest are certainly seals. The most curious of all is the terra-cotta seal No. 499, which has aperforation for suspension. Its handle has on two sides an incisedherring-bone ornamentation, and on the third side, the one to the rightin the cut, an incised inscription, in which, as Professor Sayce says, characters also found in the Cypriote syllabary can be easily Cypriote character representing e, in an older form than any metwith in Cyprus itself, is engraved on the die of the seal. Both theinscription on the handle and that on the seal are discussed by in his Appendix on the Trojan The most strikinganalogy to the Trojan seals is offered by the terra-cotta seals found atPilin in Hungary,1 on which we see circles, stars, crosses, rhombs, andother figures. Nos. 500 and 501 show the two sides of a perforated cylinder of terra-cotta, with an incised decoration, representing a tree and linear orna- No. 500. No. Nos. 500, 501. Cylinder of Terra-cotta with an incised decoration, from the Stratum of the Burnt City. (Half actual size.) 11 See Prof. Sayces Appendix, where also a 1 Joseph Hampel, Antiquitys prtfiistoriques demore perfect engraving of the seal is given. la Hongrie, PI. xiii. Nos. 4-9. 416 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. ments. Nos. 502 and 503 are the two sides of a cylinder of blue felspar,engraved on one side with a double flower, surmounted by a half-diamondor arrow-head, and on the other with signs (perhaps the name of theowner) within a It was found in the royal house. Under No. 502. No. 503.
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