. 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. ter. Though the box has evidently been exposed to a great heat,yet it is hardly half-baked, probably because it was shut. But stillthe heat has been so great in the box that all its contents have beencarbonized. In these Professor X. Landerer recognizes grain, remnantsof cotton or linen cloth, beads of glass paste, and animal charcoal of bonesand flesh. Thus we may with all probability sup
. 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. ter. Though the box has evidently been exposed to a great heat,yet it is hardly half-baked, probably because it was shut. But stillthe heat has been so great in the box that all its contents have beencarbonized. In these Professor X. Landerer recognizes grain, remnantsof cotton or linen cloth, beads of glass paste, and animal charcoal of bonesand flesh. Thus we may with all probability suppose that the funeral urncontained the ashes of a deceased person, to which were added severalarticles, to one of which the object of Egyptian porcelain belonged ; alsothe box before us, which seems to have contained a dress ornamentedwith beads of a glass paste, and some food, grain, and animal the box Nos. 264, 265, the black box before us has no holes forsuspension, and the lid is so large that it covers the lower part or boxproper entirely. No. 268 represents a lustrous-black tripod-vase with the system forsuspension ; it has on each side of the body three linear projections and two.
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