. 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. of ivory cutinto a polygonal prism, of whicheach side is decorated with threesmall circles, having a dot in thecentre like those on No. 142 andNo. 521. A similar object ofivory, with an almost identicaldecoration, was found in a tombat lalysus in Ehodes, and is pre-served in the British Museum. Nos. 530 and 531 are huckle-bones {astragali), of which aI have discussed the use of these bones
. 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. of ivory cutinto a polygonal prism, of whicheach side is decorated with threesmall circles, having a dot in thecentre like those on No. 142 andNo. 521. A similar object ofivory, with an almost identicaldecoration, was found in a tombat lalysus in Ehodes, and is pre-served in the British Museum. Nos. 530 and 531 are huckle-bones {astragali), of which aI have discussed the use of these bones263). ? Nos. 532 to 535 are objects ofivory, rudely ornamentedwith incisions evidentlymade with a similar objects, foundat lalysus, are in theBritish Museum. Of ivoryalso is the object No. 536,which resembles the barof our watch-chains, aswell as the object No. 537,which has four perfora-tions ; No. 538, which hasthe shape of a fish; andNo. 539. This latter hasa curious engraved pat-tern, which, however, hasprobably no symbolicalsignification. Prof. Sayceobserves to me: These ivory objects indicate trade with the the Black Obelisk of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser (bc. 840) the. Nos. 532-539. Various Objects of Ivory(7 :8 actu„l size. Depth, 20 to 26 ft.) Chap. VIL] OENAMENTS FOR HOESE-TRAPPINGS. 427 people of Muzri on the south-west of Armenia are represented as bringingamong other tribute an elephant, which must have been imported fromBactria, On the same obelisk is a two-humped Bactrian camel. Of ivory are further the curious objects Nos. 540 and 541, which aredecorated on both sides with a number of small circles with a point in No. 540.
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