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 . ant cup of electrum, No. 794, which is 4*4 in. high and 3*6 in. wideat the mouth. This cup hears the marks of the intense heat to which itwas exposed in the conflagration, but otherwise it is exceedingly wellpreserved. Only its upper part is externally covered with a thick in-crustation ; for the rest it is of a dazzling white, both outside and , which, as before mentioned, occur
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 . ant cup of electrum, No. 794, which is 4*4 in. high and 3*6 in. wideat the mouth. This cup hears the marks of the intense heat to which itwas exposed in the conflagration, but otherwise it is exceedingly wellpreserved. Only its upper part is externally covered with a thick in-crustation ; for the rest it is of a dazzling white, both outside and , which, as before mentioned, occurs three times in the Odyssey,is a word unknown to the Iliad; but we find in the latter6 the wordr)XeKT(0p for sun. It, therefore, appears that the poets intended toindicate by rfkeicTpov a substance capable of being compared in brilliancywith the sun. Together with this latter vase was found a helmet, but so muchdestroyed by the chloride of copper, that it fell into minute fragmentswhen it was being taken out, and it cannot be recomposed. Only itsupper portions, Nos. 795 and 796, have been preserved. I shall revert tothese in the subsequent pages, when I come to discuss similar portions No.
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