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 . they have a dull black colour, which much resemblesthe colour of the famous Albano (But there also occur a few-vases of a dull yellow or brown colour.) This dull black colour is, how-ever, perhaps as much due to the peculiar mode of baking as to thepeculiar sort of clay of which the pottery is made, because there occurin all the five pre-historic cities of Hissarlik many vases but ve
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 . they have a dull black colour, which much resemblesthe colour of the famous Albano (But there also occur a few-vases of a dull yellow or brown colour.) This dull black colour is, how-ever, perhaps as much due to the peculiar mode of baking as to thepeculiar sort of clay of which the pottery is made, because there occurin all the five pre-historic cities of Hissarlik many vases but very slightlybaked, and yet none of them have the dull colour of these Lydian terra-cottas. Besides, the shape and fabric are totally different from those ofany pottery found in the pre-historic cities, or in the upper Aeolic Greek 3 See p. 279. Albano ; London, 1869, pp. 2, 13. See also the 4 L. Pigorini and Sir John Lubbock, Notes on Albano hut-urn in the Royal Museum at Berlin,Hut- Urns and other Objects from Marino near Chap. X.] CHARACTER OF ITS POTTERY. 589 city. The reader will recognize this great difference in shape and fabricin the case of every object of pottery which I pass in No. 1362. Pithos. (About 1:13 actual size. Depth, 6 ft.) I begin with the dull blackish tureen, No. 1363, which is wheel-madeand has two handles. The large one-handled cup No. 1364 is also 590 THE SIXTH OR LYDIAN CITY OF TROY. [Chap. X. wheel-made and of the same colour; as is the very large vase No. 1365,with four handles, on two of which are small breast-like protuberances.
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