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. I.—Fragment of a lustrous black Bowl,with an incised decoration filled with whitechalk. (Size i : 2, about. Depth, 15 ni.) No. I is a rim-fragment of a large bowl, on which aredistinctly incised two lentiform eyes with brows, probablymeant for human eyes; to the right and left are twoparallel strokes; below, a zigzag line; just above the eyesthe rim forms a No. 2.—Fragment ol a
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. I.—Fragment of a lustrous black Bowl,with an incised decoration filled with whitechalk. (Size i : 2, about. Depth, 15 ni.) No. I is a rim-fragment of a large bowl, on which aredistinctly incised two lentiform eyes with brows, probablymeant for human eyes; to the right and left are twoparallel strokes; below, a zigzag line; just above the eyesthe rim forms a No. 2.—Fragment ol a lustrous black Vase, with an incised ornamentation filled with white chalk. (The reverse side, No. 3, p. 32.) No. 2 is a similar fragment of a bowl-rim, on whichwe see a very curious incised ornamentation resembling anowls face in monogram ; the eyes are particularly large ; the 32 THE FIRST SETTLEMENT. [Chap. II. Stroke between them may be intended to indicate the beak;below the rim we see a hne of curves ; all these incisionsare filled with chalk. To the right of the owls-face are twoor more incised signs. Professor Sayce thinks that the eyesmay have been intended to ward off the effects of the evilcve^ like the eyes j^ainted on the boats of China, Malta,and Sicily. In Marocco small pieces are broken out ofearthenware vessels for the same purpose. It deserves particular attention that these incised orna-mentations, Nos. I and 2, are on the inner side of the bowlrims, and that there is no ornamentation at all on the out-side. The bowls to wdiich Nos. 1 and 2 be
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