. 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. ecopies of the ancient Palladium, which was fabled to have fallen fromheaven with joined feet. Now the feefc cannot be imagined to be morejoined than they are here, where the whole inferior part of the body isrepresented by a large lump. I further lay stress on the fact, that theshape of the idol is as truly as possible copied on and imitated by thevases, with the sole difierence that here
. 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. ecopies of the ancient Palladium, which was fabled to have fallen fromheaven with joined feet. Now the feefc cannot be imagined to be morejoined than they are here, where the whole inferior part of the body isrepresented by a large lump. I further lay stress on the fact, that theshape of the idol is as truly as possible copied on and imitated by thevases, with the sole difierence that here the characteristics of a womanare more distinctly shown. Either, therefore, the owl-headed vases werealso idols; or—and this is more likely—they were sacred vases, and onlyused for the service of the goddess. The assertion is gratuitous, though it has been repeatedly made, thatwe have here merely rude representations of a woman made by a primitive 330 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VIL people, who did not know how to model anything better. But that theywere perfectly able to model symmetrical human faces, is a fact whichI could not show better than by representing here, under No. 190, a vase-.
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