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 . 6*4 in. broad, and 17*6 in. long;it has a rim l-10th in. high; at one end of it there are two immovablewheels with an axle-tree. The plate is very much bent in two places;the curvatures can only have been produced by the heat to which theobject was exposed in the conflagration. This remarkable object lay on the top of the whole mass; hence Isuppose it to have been the support to the lid of the
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 . 6*4 in. broad, and 17*6 in. long;it has a rim l-10th in. high; at one end of it there are two immovablewheels with an axle-tree. The plate is very much bent in two places;the curvatures can only have been produced by the heat to which theobject was exposed in the conflagration. This remarkable object lay on the top of the whole mass; hence Isuppose it to have been the support to the lid of the wooden chest inwhich the treasure was packed, and that the two immovable wheelsserved as hasps. Professor Eoberts, who examined this object care-fully and analysed a fragment of the silver vase, writes to me as followson the subject:— The small portion of metal 1 mm. thick from thefractured silver vase, No. 782, consists of three layers; a central one of The cause of this cementing will be explained presently. Chap. VIL] COPPER PLATE : SILVER VASES. 469 silver about 02 mm. thick, the external layers being chloride of silver,in which grains of sand and earthy matter are imbedded. The cementing. No. 782. Curious Plate of Copper, having probably served as a support of the wooden lid of the che^t, wiih twoimmovable discs, which may probably have served as hasps. A Silver Vase is cemented on it by the actionof the chloride of silver and the oxide or carbonate of copper. Found in the large Trojan treasure. (Depth, 28 ft.) action of this chloride, so beautifully shown in many of the silver articles,is interesting, and is specially remarkable in this object, in which a vaseof silver is cemented to an article of copper. In other examples sand,charcoal, and shells adhere tenaciously to silver articles by the pseudo-morphous layer of chloride of silver in which they are imbedded. Nos. 783 and 784 represent the two pretty silver vases of the treasure,which have rather an Egyptian form. T
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