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 . ving passed through the same operation, hasbeen exposed to the intense heat of the conflagration, which in a verygreat many cases has completed the thorough baking and has given toit a much finer colour, except in cases where, the heat having continuedtoo long or having been too intense, the vessels have been more or lessdestroyed by it. Thus we have before us, in this fourth city, a potteryver
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 . ving passed through the same operation, hasbeen exposed to the intense heat of the conflagration, which in a verygreat many cases has completed the thorough baking and has given toit a much finer colour, except in cases where, the heat having continuedtoo long or having been too intense, the vessels have been more or lessdestroyed by it. Thus we have before us, in this fourth city, a potteryvery inferior in fabric to that of the first and second cities, but a potterywhich would have been but slightly inferior to that of its predecessor, thethird city, had it not been through the accidentally superior baking of thelatter in the conflagration. Under No. 986 I represent a pretty lustrous-yellow owl-headed vase,of a globular shape but flat-bottomed, with the characteristics of awoman and two wing-like vertical projections : the vulva, with its incisedcross and the four dots, is of special interest. Very interesting is alsothe globular red vase No. 987, which has also a flat bottom, and on. No. 988. Terra-cotta Vase, with an owls head, the No. 987. Curious Vase, with an owls head, holding a characteristics of a woman, and two wings. double-handled cup. (1:3 actual size. Depth, 22 ft.) (About half actual size. Depth, 15 ft.) which we see the large owl-eyes still more distinctly marked. The figurehas on its head a basin, which forms the orifice; four necklaces areindicated round the neck. In its hands it holds a double-handled cup,which communicates by a hole with the principal vase. Owl-headed vases 522 THE FOURTH CITY ON THE SITE OF TROY. [Chap. VIII. of an identical shape also occur in the third city: the fragment repre-sented under No. 228, p. 340, is the mouth-piece of a similar vase. No. 988 is a pear-shaped lustrous-hlack vase, with wing-like verticalprojections, an
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