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 . No. 130.—Archaic Greek Vessel. Size1:4; depth about i • 50 m. No. 129.—Male Mask of terra-cotta. Sizeabout2:3depth I in. Nos. 1459-1461, p. 618; further, a large mass of archaicpainted pottery, precisely like Nos. 1439-1446, p. 615,as well as other pieces w ith a spiral ornamentation similarto that on the Mycenean pottery. I represent under No. §!•] ARCHAIC GRKEK POTTERY. 21 130 a very remarkabl
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 . No. 130.—Archaic Greek Vessel. Size1:4; depth about i • 50 m. No. 129.—Male Mask of terra-cotta. Sizeabout2:3depth I in. Nos. 1459-1461, p. 618; further, a large mass of archaicpainted pottery, precisely like Nos. 1439-1446, p. 615,as well as other pieces w ith a spiral ornamentation similarto that on the Mycenean pottery. I represent under No. §!•] ARCHAIC GRKEK POTTERY. 21 130 a very remarkable archaic Greek vessel, which resemblesa turtle, but has no feet; the mouth-piece is on the left side,on which the rim projects horizontally : the vase is rudelyornamented with red cross-lines, which, owing to the dirtwith which it is covered, have not come out in the photo-graph. A terra-cotta vase of perfectly the same shape as. No. 131.—Archaic Greek painted terra-cotta Bottle, in the form ol a huge hunt-ing bottle, with two handles and three feet. Size about 1:4; depth abouti5om. No. 130, but of uniform black colour, was found, withhut-urns, under a stratum of peperino at Marino nearAlbano, and is preserved in the British Museum. A similarornamentation of red cross-lines, forming lozenges, likeNo. 130, is seen on the remarkable archaic Greek flattwo-handled tripod-bottle, No. 131, which has the form ofa huge hunting-bottle. A perfectly similar archaic Etruscan 2l8 GREEK AND ROMAN ILIUM. [Chap. V. bottle, but without either feet or |)ainted ornamentation, isin the British Museum. Tliere occur here besides, in the lowest layers of theHellenic ddbris^ two kinds of wheel-made pottery, whichwe cannot ascribe either to the Aeolic city or to a pre-historic settlement; of both types w^e found only fragments,all of which are derived from large vases. The one kind isthoroughly baked, has the red colour of the clay,
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