. 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. marked. On fiveothers the owl-face is indicated with black colour, which I take to beblack clay, viz. Nos. 206-210; on the two first of these, besides the owl-face, the hair is delineated. Professor Yirchow suggests that the blackcolour with which the owl-face is indicated may be soot. On anotherone, No. 211, instsad of the face, there is an incised circle. Nos. 212-220 are nine flat idols
. 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. marked. On fiveothers the owl-face is indicated with black colour, which I take to beblack clay, viz. Nos. 206-210; on the two first of these, besides the owl-face, the hair is delineated. Professor Yirchow suggests that the blackcolour with which the owl-face is indicated may be soot. On anotherone, No. 211, instsad of the face, there is an incised circle. Nos. 212-220 are nine flat idols of marble, on eight of which the owlshead is incised. On Nos. 212 and 213 the girdle is indicated by a singlestroke; on No. 214, by seven strokes; on No. 215, by two lines and fivepoints ; on No. 216, again, by three strokes; and on No. 218, by onestroke. Yery remarkable are the ten points below the hair on the fore- 336 THE THIRD, THE BUENT CITY. [Chap. VII. head of the idol No. 214; are they meant to indicate a frontlet ? OnNo. 215 we see a point on the forehead. On No. 220, the eyes seemto be indicated by two concentric circles, and the beak by a third. Kuder No. 212. ^No. 213. No. 214. No. Nos. 212-220. Rud3 Idols of Marble. (About half actual size.) than all the rest is the idol No. 218, on which eyes and nose are indicatedby points close to one another, that indicating the nose being above theeyes; breasts are also indicated on this idol with points. Under Nos. 221, 222, 223 I represent three flat idols of bone. No. 221.
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