. 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. 50. Curious Vessel, use unknown (perhapsa Censer), placed on the foot of another vessel.(About 1: 4 actual size. Depth, 45 ft.) No. 51. Pretty lustrous red Cup with one handle.(About 1:4 actual size. Depth, 48ft.) under my eyes whilst writing this, show precisely the same mode ofmanufacture as that which I have described above for the large bowls,with the sole difference, that here red
. 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. 50. Curious Vessel, use unknown (perhapsa Censer), placed on the foot of another vessel.(About 1: 4 actual size. Depth, 45 ft.) No. 51. Pretty lustrous red Cup with one handle.(About 1:4 actual size. Depth, 48ft.) under my eyes whilst writing this, show precisely the same mode ofmanufacture as that which I have described above for the large bowls,with the sole difference, that here red clay was used, and that, asM. Landerer explains to me, the cup, immediately before its secondbaking in an open fire, was repeatedly dipped in a wash of fine red claycontaining much peroxide of iron, which has produced the varnish-likeglazing. I would here call particular attention to the fact, that the gobletNo. 51 represents more or less exactly the form of all the goblets ofterra-cotta found by me at Mycenae and Tiryns.^ Those found there inthe royal tombs, and which are the most ancient, are of a light-greencolour, with curious black painted ornaments ; those found in the loweststrata outside the
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