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 . 97,4 on which we see in the middle an owls face in mono-gram ; to its right a wheel, which may mean the sun; to its left, threeconcentric circles, which may represent the moon, and below a smallcircle-, perhaps intended to represent the morning star. All these repre-sentations can be best distinguished in the developed pattern (No. 1998).On the back the female hair is indicated by deep scratchi
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 . 97,4 on which we see in the middle an owls face in mono-gram ; to its right a wheel, which may mean the sun; to its left, threeconcentric circles, which may represent the moon, and below a smallcircle-, perhaps intended to represent the morning star. All these repre-sentations can be best distinguished in the developed pattern (No. 1998).On the back the female hair is indicated by deep scratchings. As thehair cannot be distinguished in the engraving, I strongly advise thereader to see the ball itself in my collection in the South This owls face, between the sun and moon and morning star,proves better, I think, than all the vases and idols, that the owls headis the symbol of the Ilian Athene. I have still to represent here, under Nos. 238, 239, a curious hand-made vessel of terra-cotta, which was found at a depth of 30 ft. It hasbeen thoroughly baked in the conflagration. It has a distinctly indicatedowls face, below which are three horizontal strokes, probably meant. Nos. 233, 23a. Front and back View of a curious Vessel, with owls face. (Half actual size. Depth, 30 ft.) to represent necklaces. Below the latter, the front part of the body iscovered by a long shield, and on the back the 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 (
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