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 . k. It is difficult toexplain how the Trojansproduced such Giuliano thinkswith Mr. Landerer thatthe gold plate was laidon a block of lead andthe ornamentation ham-mered or pressed intoit. In the treasure wasalso the gold breast or-nament No. 905, whichis 18 in. long. Theupper part, in the formof a basket, is 1*8 and 1J in. broad;it consists of twenty-five gold wires, whichwe
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 . k. It is difficult toexplain how the Trojansproduced such Giuliano thinkswith Mr. Landerer thatthe gold plate was laidon a block of lead andthe ornamentation ham-mered or pressed intoit. In the treasure wasalso the gold breast or-nament No. 905, whichis 18 in. long. Theupper part, in the formof a basket, is 1*8 and 1J in. broad;it consists of twenty-five gold wires, whichwere beaten flat, sol-dered together, bentover, and joined bymeans of a small goldplate, 012 in. broad,and of two gold pins;to the upper borderwere soldered two goldhooks, 2Jin. long. Oneside of the gold basketis ornamented withthree rows of elevengold rings, and two more such rings are seen on the lower part of the hooks. All theserings were filled up with a substance like white glass, which seemsto have once had another colour, and may probably have been the lowei end is soldered a gold plate, with ten holes, from whichten chains hang down, consisting of double rings of gold wire, and on.
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