. 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. 1899-1904, 1910, 1993, 1999, and 2000). ButI remind the reader that this, like all other patterns on the pre-historicpottery of Hissarlik, is incised. If we examine these incisions with alens, we conclude from their rudeness and irregularity that they musthave been made with pointed pieces of silex or hard wood, or with bone-needles, before the pottery was baked for the second time, or, mo
. 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. 1899-1904, 1910, 1993, 1999, and 2000). ButI remind the reader that this, like all other patterns on the pre-historicpottery of Hissarlik, is incised. If we examine these incisions with alens, we conclude from their rudeness and irregularity that they musthave been made with pointed pieces of silex or hard wood, or with bone-needles, before the pottery was baked for the second time, or, moreprobably, before it was brought to the fire for the first time. The vasebefore us (No. 302) has been exposed to the full heat of the conflagra-tion ; for, although the clay is very thick, it is thoroughly baked. Thisvase evidently had a cover like that which we see on No. 252. Another highly interesting vase is represented by No. 303 (p. 368); it 368 THE THIED, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. is of a lustrous-black colour, and but slightly baked. Like niany otherblack vases, it would most probably have become quite red had it beenexposed to the intense heat of the conflagration, and so been thoroughly. No. :!03. Vase of polished blackish Terra-cotta, withtubular holes for suspension. Incised plant-like orna-No. 302. Vase of welL-poh^hed yellow I erra-cotta, with mentation. (Half actual size. Depth, 33 ft.) an incised ornamentation and long tubular holes forsuspension on either side. (About 1 : 3 actual , 2t:nt) baked. It has on both sides pointed projections with perforations forsuspension. Like the foregoing vase (No. 302), it has a small hollowfoot; its shape is globular; it is decorated on each side with two reversedbranches, each with 18 leaves and surrounded by dots; there is also aplant-like ornamentation above the projections. A similar ornamentationis very frequent on the whorls (see Nos. 1901 and 1904). The lustrous-red vase No. 304 is of an oval shape. This al
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