. 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. 1346. Object of Stone :a Phallus. (Half actualsize. Depth, 9 It.) met with, they are found in Egypt.* No. 1345 is an instrument ofsilicious stone, which may have served as a weight for stone instruments are found in Denmark.^ No. 1346 is of whitemarble, and from its shape we are led to think that it may be a symbol ofPriapus. I have discussed this subject in the pr
. 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. 1346. Object of Stone :a Phallus. (Half actualsize. Depth, 9 It.) met with, they are found in Egypt.* No. 1345 is an instrument ofsilicious stone, which may have served as a weight for stone instruments are found in Denmark.^ No. 1346 is of whitemarble, and from its shape we are led to think that it may be a symbol ofPriapus. I have discussed this subject in the preceding pages. Similarly-shaped stones occur in all the five cities. No. 1347 is a perforated disc or quoit of granite, the only one found inthis fifth city, but similar discs occur in all the four other pre-historic. No. 1317. Stone Disc or Quoit. (Half actual , 9 ft.) No. 1348. Mould of Limestone, in the shapeof a bottle. (Half actual size. Depth, 6 ft.) cities of Hissarlik. The game of quoit-throwing was in general use in theHomeric age. The player who threw it farthest gained the prize ;^ hence * F. Mook, Aegyptens Vormetallische Zcit, No. 88. PI. xii. Nos. 4-6. « // jj 774. * J. J. A. Worsaae. Oldsager, PI. xviii. SiffKoiaiv rtpirovro Koi alyaftjiffiv UvTes, Chap. IX.] QUOITS : MOULDS : BEONZE NEEDLES, ETC. 585. the word BcaKovpa, signifying the distance of a quoits throw :— Foralthough at first he remained a quoits throw behind, yet quickly he cameup with him.^ Also BiaKov ovpa, to express the same thing.^ The wordhia-Ko^ may he derived from hiKeZv, SeU-vv/jLi, the Sanscrit dig, for Si/cyo?.The quoit was always round and smooth, usually of stone, but also ofwood, and once in the Iliad of iron, and was then called ;?,^ connectedwith craXo?, craXevo), aaXa^rj, Lat
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