. 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. y a peculiar process. is of opinion that it must have been produced by an abundanceof pine-soot, with which the vessels were coloured at the second baking 220 THE FIRST PRE-HISTOEIC CITY. [Chap. V. in the open fire. On examining with a microscope the white chalkwith which the incised ornamentation is filled, he found in it the remainsof linen cords. Professor Landerer calls my a
. 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. y a peculiar process. is of opinion that it must have been produced by an abundanceof pine-soot, with which the vessels were coloured at the second baking 220 THE FIRST PRE-HISTOEIC CITY. [Chap. V. in the open fire. On examining with a microscope the white chalkwith which the incised ornamentation is filled, he found in it the remainsof linen cords. Professor Landerer calls my attention to the fact, that the colour ofthe Hellenic terra-cotta vases is coal hiach, which was produced in thefollowing manner:— Before the baking, the vases were oiled over with tar(Triaaa), or perhaps with the pissa asphalt of Herodotus,^ which occurson the island of Zacynthus. In the baking the rosin was changed intothe finest coal, which got attached to the exterior layer of clay of thevases and produced their black varnish. There are also terra-cotta vessels in the first city with four perfora-tions for suspension on each side in the rim, as is illustrated by theaccompanying engraving No. No. 43. Fragment of a Vase of polislied WackEarthenware, with incised pattern filled withwhite chalk. (About half actual size. Depth,46 ft.)
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