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 . trusting to their bows and to their slings of twistedsheeps wool; with these arms they did not cease to harassthe Trojans and to break, their phalanxes. The sling wasconsequently made of sheeps wool, instead of which leatherwas used in later times. As the sling isnever mentioned in the poems except inthese two passages, it appears to havebeen a weapon which was not muchesteemed.* There were also
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 . trusting to their bows and to their slings of twistedsheeps wool; with these arms they did not cease to harassthe Trojans and to break, their phalanxes. The sling wasconsequently made of sheeps wool, instead of which leatherwas used in later times. As the sling isnever mentioned in the poems except inthese two passages, it appears to havebeen a weapon which was not muchesteemed.* There were also found in the templeA some axes ofdiorite, among which Irepresent the most remarkable underNo. 48. It has only one edge; the otherend, which is convex, must have beenused as a hammer, for it bears the marksof such usage. A groove on each side, size 00 1:3 ; depth about 8*50 m. half a centimetre deep, proves that theboring had been commenced but abandoned. It is wellpolished and expanding towards the edge; on all its foursides there are two slightly concave bands, o*oi m. wide,which give the axe a very pretty appearance. Of particular interest is an object of Egyptian porcc-. oi) yap ^X K6pv0as x°^^KVpfO-s iTnroSa(Teias,ovS ex evKvKKovs Kal jxeiKtva Sovpa-aW apa to^oictiv Kal ivffTp6(pw ows olmtwIKtov fis au firovTO ?Kiiroi66Ti$- oktiv iirtnaTapcpia ^dWovTfs, Tpwccv priyvvvTO (paKayyas. * Whoever wishes to learn more about sling-bullets should readGottfried Sempers work Ucbcr die Schleudergeschosse der Alienund iiber zweckmdssige Gestaliung der Wurfkorper im Allgemcinen,Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, 1859. I20 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. 111. lain in tlic sluij)c of a tliick needle with two pointed ends,each of which is j)erforated ; its use is quite unintelligibleto us.* There were further found in the temple A very numerouswhorls of terra-cotta with an incised ornamentation : twenty-six of them were found in one heap immediately in front
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