Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . nnot refrain from mentioning in this place,that the art of making pottery by means of the wheelexisted alrcadv as a handicraft and a profession at the timeof the poet; as vve see it in the admirable simile, in which. Chap. II.] THE POTTERS WHEEL IN HOMER. 35 in order to dcjiict the light and rapid movements of thedancing youths and virgins represented by Hephaestus onthe shield of Achilles, he c
Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . nnot refrain from mentioning in this place,that the art of making pottery by means of the wheelexisted alrcadv as a handicraft and a profession at the timeof the poet; as vve see it in the admirable simile, in which. Chap. II.] THE POTTERS WHEEL IN HOMER. 35 in order to dcjiict the light and rapid movements of thedancing youths and virgins represented by Hephaestus onthe shield of Achilles, he compares these movements tothe rapid rotation of the wheel, which the potter, in com-mencing his work, sets turning rapidly round its axis, inorder to try whether it can aid the skill of his hands.* Imay add that as early as the time of the first dynasties ofthe old Egyptian empire the potters wheel was in generaluse, and all pottery was thoroughly baked in Nos, 6 and 7 are two lustrous black cups with a highhollow foot and a large handle, standing upright on therim; the clay is thick, but slightly baked, and are the first entire cups of this shape I ever found, No. 6. No. Nos. 6, 7.—Two lustrous black Cups, with hollow foot and upright handle.(Size I • 4. Liepth, about 14 m.) but, as similar handles and hollow feet are of frequent occur-rence in the debris of the first settlement, there can be nodoubt that this form of cup was in general use here. Avery singular vessel is No. 8, which is also of a lustrousblack colour, and of thick clay only slightly baked. Thebody, which resembles that of our present drinking-glasses, * //. XVIII. 599-601 : o? S 6t€ fiiv dpf^acTKOv lirKTraixivoKn Tr6Se(T(Tivl)(7a \\ ws OTf Tis Tpoxov ^pfxivov iv TraKa/j-rtaivi^Ofieuos Kepa/xeus TreiprifffTat, at k€ dcTjcnv t See George Perrot et Charles Chipiez, Histoire de FArt, Paris,\z, vol. i. pp. 818, 819. See also S. Birch, Ancient Pottery, p. 14. 36 THE FIRST SETTLEME
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