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 . No. 57.—Oenochoe of oval form, with a long straightneck and trefoil moutL. Size 1:4; depth about8 50 m. with a convex foot and a very long straight neck, which isjoined by a long handle to the body; the rim is bentover all round. Of a somewhat similar shape and a likecolour is the oenochoe, No. 57; but its mouth is trefoiland straighter. A vase with a long straight neck, similar Chap. OENO
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 . No. 57.—Oenochoe of oval form, with a long straightneck and trefoil moutL. Size 1:4; depth about8 50 m. with a convex foot and a very long straight neck, which isjoined by a long handle to the body; the rim is bentover all round. Of a somewhat similar shape and a likecolour is the oenochoe, No. 57; but its mouth is trefoiland straighter. A vase with a long straight neck, similar Chap. OENOCHOAE OF VARIOUS P^ORMS. 133 to this, but of a lustrous black colour and with a fiatbottom, was found below the ancient lava at Marino nearAlbano, and is preserved in the British Museum ; anothersomewhat similar one is in the collection of Consul A. Bour-guignon, partner of Messrs. MeuricofFre & Co. at No. 58.—Oenochoe with a long ftraight neck and a trefoilorifice. Size 1:4; depth about 8•50m. Still more interesting is the oenochoe No. 58, which isremarkable for its long tall handle and neck, and beautifulstraight trefoil mouth. Another highly interesting vase isrepresented by No, 59: it is of a dark-brown colour,has a flat bottom, and on each side a long vertically 34 THE SECOND CITY : TROY. [Chap. III. perforated excrescence for suspension with a string: eachside of the vase is adorned with incised leaf-patterns, hang-ing down vertically. All these terra-cottas are thoroughlybaked, and have evidently been exposed to an intense remarkable object found in the temple A is a vasewhich has been almost altogether melted into a shapelessmass, and thus testifies again to the white heat to which ithas been exposed in the catastrophe.
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