. 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. No. 1393. Double-hantUed Cup (SeVos o/x<^iKUJreAAov), represented here upside down. (2 : 5 actual size. Depth, about 6 ft.). No. 1394. Oenochoe with one : 4 actual size. Depth, 9 ft.) George Dennis, op. cit. p. cxxiv. No. 66. « Ibid. No. 70. X.] VASES WITH TUBES FOR SUSPENSION. 597 tliis city, they prove at least that it was in use there also. It istherefore highly proba
. 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. No. 1393. Double-hantUed Cup (SeVos o/x<^iKUJreAAov), represented here upside down. (2 : 5 actual size. Depth, about 6 ft.). No. 1394. Oenochoe with one : 4 actual size. Depth, 9 ft.) George Dennis, op. cit. p. cxxiv. No. 66. « Ibid. No. 70. X.] VASES WITH TUBES FOR SUSPENSION. 597 tliis city, they prove at least that it was in use there also. It istherefore highly probable that this form of goblet still existed at thetime of Homer, and that it is to this very same sort of double-handledcuj) that he gives the name SeVa? a/n(f)iKV7r€Xkov. But if we comparethis rude bulky cup with the fine goblets of the same shape from thethird, the burnt city, we see that it has enormously degenerated. No, 1394 is a pear-shaped one-handled oenocJioe, with a conical excre-scence on each side of the head. If we compare this jug or oenocJwe withthe Cypriote oenocJwae or the jugs from the pre-historic cities on theisland of Thera (Santorin), on most of which a human eye is painted oneither side of the orifice, we become convinced that the conical excres-cences on the jug before us (No. 1394) cannot mean anyth
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