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 . markable, and welcome toevery museum, I gathered all we found, and was able tofill with them no less than eio;ht large boxes. I also care-fully collected all the bones I could find, and sent a wholebox-full of them to Professor Rudolf Virchow at Berlin forinvestigation. (See Appendix II.) Nearly all the potteryis lustrous black; but lustrous red, brown, or yellow terra-cottas are not rare. I col
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 . markable, and welcome toevery museum, I gathered all we found, and was able tofill with them no less than eio;ht large boxes. I also care-fully collected all the bones I could find, and sent a wholebox-full of them to Professor Rudolf Virchow at Berlin forinvestigation. (See Appendix II.) Nearly all the potteryis lustrous black; but lustrous red, brown, or yellow terra-cottas are not rare. I collected separately all the morecharacteristic fragments, particularly all the vase-rims withlong horizontal tubular holes, of which I gathered hundreds,and put carefully aside those with an incised ornamentation,which is always filled with chalk in order to strike the ornamentation is ahvavs more or less like that whichwe see on the fragments represented in Ilios, p. 216, Nos. Chap. II.] FRAGMENTS OF POTTERY. 31 28-3 T, But an ornamentation of wave-lines, like those atj). 225, Nos. ^^, 54 in I/ios, also occurs now and then. I represent here only the two most interesting vase- No. I.—Fragment of a lustrous black Bowl,with an incised decoration filled with whitechalk. (Size i : 2, about. Depth, 15 ni.) No. I is a rim-fragment of a large bowl, on which aredistinctly incised two lentiform eyes with brows, probablymeant for human eyes; to the right and left are twoparallel strokes; below, a zigzag line; just above the eyesthe rim forms a semicircle.
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