. 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. Nos. 977, 978. Skull found in a jar, together with ashes of animal mitter, probably human ashes, at a depth of 23 ft. Professor Yirchow kindly sent me also the following note on theskeleton of a foetus which was found in a vase in the third or burntcity : — This skeleton is very defective, because there are only a few frag-ments of the head, breast, pelvis, hands and feet. On the other han
. 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. Nos. 977, 978. Skull found in a jar, together with ashes of animal mitter, probably human ashes, at a depth of 23 ft. Professor Yirchow kindly sent me also the following note on theskeleton of a foetus which was found in a vase in the third or burntcity : — This skeleton is very defective, because there are only a few frag-ments of the head, breast, pelvis, hands and feet. On the other hand, theupper and lower extremities as far as the hands and feet are prettycomplete. Their bones give the following measurements :— mm. mm, Os humeri , , . 36 Os femoris • • • 37 Ulna , • . 34 Tibia , , . 31 Eadius . ^ . 31 Fibula . , , . 33 It may, therefore, be a foetus of from 6 to 7 both the helmets, which were on these skulls, had beenso much destroyed by the chloride of copper, that they could only betaken out in small fragments, which are too much corroded and too fragileto be recomposed. The upper portions of both helmets have, however, been well pre-served; and
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