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 . d the two staff-handle knobs are the only glassobjects found by me in all my excavations at Hissarlik; further, thatthese six objects occurred in the third or burnt city, and that no trace 430 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. of glass was found in any of the lower or upper pre-historic cities, unless,indeed, No. 551 belongs to the last pre-historic city, which appears to medoubtful. I rat
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 . d the two staff-handle knobs are the only glassobjects found by me in all my excavations at Hissarlik; further, thatthese six objects occurred in the third or burnt city, and that no trace 430 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. of glass was found in any of the lower or upper pre-historic cities, unless,indeed, No. 551 belongs to the last pre-historic city, which appears to medoubtful. I rather think it belongs to the still later city, the sixth insuccession from the virgin soil, which I may be permitted to believe tobe of Lydian origin. It is therefore very probable, that all these objectswere imported by the Phoenicians to Troy. No. 556 is a prettily-shaped egg of aragonite. No. 557 representsan object of diorite, of unknown use. There were also found severalunpolished hexagons of crystal, as well as a small finely-polished crystalplate with four perforations, which may have belonged to a lyre. Passing from these ornaments to more useful objects : No. 558 repre- No. 557. No. Nos. 559-580. Awls and Needles of Bone and Ivory. (About half actual size. Depth, 22 to 33 ft.) Chap. VII.] AWLS OF BONE AND HORN. 431 sents a very primitive comb of bone, whose teeth may have been sawnwith the common saws of chalcedony. In the accompanying group, No. 559 is an object of ivory with threeperforations, which may have served as an ornament for 5G0-574 are needles, or other implements of bone or ivory forfemale handiwork. As I have said before, similar needles of bone arefound in the caverns of Dordogne in France, as well as in the SwissLake-dwellings (see p. 262). They are also frequent in tombs in 575 to 580 are awls of bone, such as I have discussed before (seeibid). Nos. 581 to 584 are four more awls of bone. Nos. 585 to 587 No. 581. N
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