. 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. 1450. Pig of Terra-cotta, curiously markedall over with stars. (Actual size. Depth, 12 ft.) decorated with dark-red stars on a light-red dead ground. No 1451 is atablet of terra-cotta representing a painted draped figure with a longbeard, on horseback; the head is covered with a No. 1451. Tablet of Terra-cotta, with a horseman In relief. (Actual size. Depth, 2 to 3ft.) No 1452 is
. 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. 1450. Pig of Terra-cotta, curiously markedall over with stars. (Actual size. Depth, 12 ft.) decorated with dark-red stars on a light-red dead ground. No 1451 is atablet of terra-cotta representing a painted draped figure with a longbeard, on horseback; the head is covered with a No. 1451. Tablet of Terra-cotta, with a horseman In relief. (Actual size. Depth, 2 to 3ft.) No 1452 is an object of terra-cotta, representing in relief the beardedficrure of an old man with a Phrygian cap on his head. Professor Sayceremarks to me regarding this object: The figure is in the Assyrian sty each side of the head is a winged thunderbolt, such as is found on thecoins of Elis and Sicily. It has been explained by Mr. Percy Gardner mthe Numismatic Chronicle, N. S. xix. (1879). We shall find it again on theterra-cotta plaq^^es figured under Nos. 1459-1461. No. 1453 is a beardedhead covered with a cloth. Nos. 1454, 1455, and 145i3 are very pretty §L] FINE FIGURES IN TEREA-COTTA. 617
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