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 . long female hair hangsdown, like that of the Caryatides in the Acropolis of Athens. On eachside is a separate vessel, which does not communicate with that of themain body. Very characteristic are the nine rows of points on the shield,which, like those which we see on the coats of mail and the casques of thesix warriors painted on a Mycenean vase,6 are no doubt meant to indicatethe splendour of
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 . long female hair hangsdown, like that of the Caryatides in the Acropolis of Athens. On eachside is a separate vessel, which does not communicate with that of themain body. Very characteristic are the nine rows of points on the shield,which, like those which we see on the coats of mail and the casques of thesix warriors painted on a Mycenean vase,6 are no doubt meant to indicatethe splendour of brass. This vessel is unique; no second one has beenfound like it. 4 On the last of the lithographed plates at theend of the volume. 5 M. Burnouf writes to me: This ball () gives probably the explanation of a greatpart of the Trojan symbolism, because it is most evident that the female in the centre representshere the dawn. The signs on the whorls arenearly all astronomical. 6 See my Mycenae, p. 133, No. 213. Chap. VII.] WINGS AND SPIRALS ON VASES. 345 No. 240 is a lustrous dark-red hand-made vase, with two large breastsand a large projecting vulva. Besides two handles, it has two upright. No. 210. Large Vuse, with the characteristics of a woman. (About 1:5 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) wing-like projections, from each of which issues on either side a spiralornament in relief, resembling, as Professor Sayce observes, the lituusor crooked staff carried by certain figures in the Hittite sculptures ofBoghaz Kioi or Pteria and elsewhere. I remind the reader that the owl-faced, cap-like covers, such as No. 236, belong to this sort of vase. No. 241 is a hand-made light-brown vase, with two breasts on eachside and two projections; it is ornamented with grooves and incised lines.
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