. 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. cotta, from1^ to 3 in. in diameter, with a hole drilled through the centre. As theyare slightly convex on one side, and on the other slightly concave, and asthe edges are very rudely cut, there can be no doubt that they were cutout of broken pottery. Those of the first city have the pretty lustrousdark-black colour peculiar to the pottery of the primitive settlers. Therecan hardly be any d
. 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. cotta, from1^ to 3 in. in diameter, with a hole drilled through the centre. As theyare slightly convex on one side, and on the other slightly concave, and asthe edges are very rudely cut, there can be no doubt that they were cutout of broken pottery. Those of the first city have the pretty lustrousdark-black colour peculiar to the pottery of the primitive settlers. Therecan hardly be any doubt that these discs were used with the distaff, inspinning as well as in weaving, as weights for the thread.^ Similar discs, with the same characteristics, proving that they werecut out of broken pottery, have been also found at Szihalom ; two of them,exhibited in the National Hungarian Museum, are represented on Plate ix,,Nos. 2 and 4 of the photographs of the collections. Another such disc,found at Magyarad, in the county of Hont, is represented under No. 37 onPlate xiii. in Joseph Hampels Antiquites prehistoriques de la Hongrie. No. 71 is the fragment of a very rude figure of terra-cotta. No. 72. No. 71. Fragment of a rude figure of Terra-cotta.(About half actual size. Depth, 46 ft.)
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