Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . Nos. 1198, 1199. Crucibles of Clay. (Nearly half actual size. Depth, 13 to 19 ft.) the conflagration, they always have a yellow colour. It deserves attentionthat these clay cylinders occur neither in the following, the fifth city, norin the first or the second city, and that they are peculiar to the third andfourth. Those of the third, the burnt city have for the most part become c A vessel lik
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . Nos. 1198, 1199. Crucibles of Clay. (Nearly half actual size. Depth, 13 to 19 ft.) the conflagration, they always have a yellow colour. It deserves attentionthat these clay cylinders occur neither in the following, the fifth city, norin the first or the second city, and that they are peculiar to the third andfourth. Those of the third, the burnt city have for the most part become c A vessel like No. 1195 was found in theThird City: see No. 327, p. 373. 9 See Nos. 23 and 36 in the glass case No. the National Museum of Buda-Pesth. 10 V. Gross, Resultats des Rccherches dans lesLacs de la Suisse occidentale, p. 23. 11 Wolfgang Helbig, Die Italikcr in der Toc-bene; Leipzig, 1879, p. 17. Chap. VIII.] PERFORATED IMPLEMENTS OF CLAY. 559 so fragile by the conflagration that they easily dissolve in the rain. Thoseof the fourth city have not been exposed to the conflagration, and are forthat reason much more compact and solid. Clay cylinders of the same shape. No. 1200. Ierforated Clay Cylinder. (Half actual , laft.) and fabric are found in the Lake-dwellings in the Lake of Constance,1 and,as Professor Yirchow informs me, they are found in tombs in many regionsof Germany. I also saw several specimens of them in the Museum of theLacustrine Antiquities at Zurich, though I do not see them represented inFerd. Kellers Pfalilbauten (7ter Bericht). The use of these cylinders isunknown to us. We cannot admit Lindenschmits2 opinion, that theyserved as weights for fishing-nets, as they are not baked, and would,
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