. 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. 497. Ko. 498. No. 499. Inscribed Terra-cotta Seal. (About 1: 3 actual size. Depth, 23 ft.). Nos. 493-498. Six Seals of Terra-cotta.(7 : 8 actual size. Depth, 26 to 35 ft.) but the button or handle of a vase-cover. That may be so, but all therest are certainly seals. The most curious of all is the terra-cotta seal No. 499, which has aperforation for suspension. Its handle has on two sid
. 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. 497. Ko. 498. No. 499. Inscribed Terra-cotta Seal. (About 1: 3 actual size. Depth, 23 ft.). Nos. 493-498. Six Seals of Terra-cotta.(7 : 8 actual size. Depth, 26 to 35 ft.) but the button or handle of a vase-cover. That may be so, but all therest are certainly seals. The most curious of all is the terra-cotta seal No. 499, which has aperforation for suspension. Its handle has on two sides an incisedherring-bone ornamentation, and on the third side, the one to the rightin the cut, an incised inscription, in which, as Professor Sayce says, characters also found in the Cypriote syllabary can be easily Cypriote character representing e, in an older form than any metwith in Cyprus itself, is engraved on the die of the seal. Both theinscription on the handle and that on the seal are discussed by in his Appendix on the Trojan inscriptions.^^ The most strikinganalogy to the Trojan seals is offered by the terra-cotta seals found atPilin in Hungary,^ on which we see circles, stars, crosses, rhombs, andother figures. Nos. 500 and 501 show the two sides of a per
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