Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . Koban contained from 10 to12 per cent of tin.* There was also found in the temple A the very curiousobject of bronze. No. ^6 (p. 106), which seems to be asurgical instrument; further, numerous brooches of copperwith spiral or globular heads. No. 37 is an unornamentedterra-cotta whorl: it appears to have been nailed to a wallwith a copper pin, which is preserved, and its round head * Rudolf Virch
Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . Koban contained from 10 to12 per cent of tin.* There was also found in the temple A the very curiousobject of bronze. No. ^6 (p. 106), which seems to be asurgical instrument; further, numerous brooches of copperwith spiral or globular heads. No. 37 is an unornamentedterra-cotta whorl: it appears to have been nailed to a wallwith a copper pin, which is preserved, and its round head * Rudolf Virchow, Das Grdberfdd von Koban ini Lande dcr Ossdcji,Kaukasus, Berlin, 1883, p. 23. Tin. Copper. Lead. Iron. 9-04 90*96 — — 5-80 93 50 — o* 70 0-45 98-65 — 0-85 traces 99-55 — traces lo6 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. may be distinctly seen in the engraving. The presence ofthis pin in the whorl seems rather to corroborate my opinion,that ail the whorls served as votive offerings to AtheneErgane, the tutelary deity of Troy. Of gold there was found in the temple A only a verysmall and simple unornamented frontlet, and a staff orsceptre knob with a geometrical ornamentation in rcpoiiss^.
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