. 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. admirer ofsimilar jewels, and spent large sums of money on them. I represent here a few fragments of the more characteristic archaicGreek pottery found in the hill of Hissarlik itself. The hand-made fragment. No. 1432, represents, in black colour on alight-red dead ground, the upper part of a winged female figure, with along pointed nose and chin ; the long hair hangs down on the back; the
. 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. admirer ofsimilar jewels, and spent large sums of money on them. I represent here a few fragments of the more characteristic archaicGreek pottery found in the hill of Hissarlik itself. The hand-made fragment. No. 1432, represents, in black colour on alight-red dead ground, the upper part of a winged female figure, with along pointed nose and chin ; the long hair hangs down on the back; theeye is very large; the head is covered with a short cap, to which isattached a very long tail or crest, the end of which, branching into two * That Ilium was still flourishing in the time 181-2).of the immediate successors of Coustantine the * Geschichtc von Troas; Leipzig, 1877, p. 97. Great, is proved by the letter of Julian, quoted ^ Const. Porphyr. de Caerem. ii. 54, p. 792, in the chapter on the History of Troy (pp. 79-i f. §1.] ARCHAIC PAINTED POTTERY. 613 spirals, is particularly curious. Before the figure, in the right-handcorner, we see again the curious symbol found on the Italian hut-urns. No. 1432. Painted Archaic Pottery. (Atout half actual size. Depth, about 5 ft.) and the Trojan whorls, and which the late Professor Martin Haug ofMunich read si, and thought to be the first syllable of the Trojan god orhero Sigo or Siko, which he found repeatedly in the Trojan the figure we see a curious object with a swastika in the formof a Maltese cross. I also call attention to the two clusters of dots,which, as Prof. Yirchow presumes, may be meant to represent flowers. No. 1433 is a wheel-made potsherd, having an ornamentation paintedwith black colour on a dead white ground ; it consists of nine wavinglines, and, between two borders, an arrow-like decoration. No. 1434 is
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