Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . Nos. 471-473. Small boat-like Basins of sun-dried Clay.(Nearly half actual size. Depth, 22 to 26 ft.) this purpose four times the quantity of lead is now added to the preciousmetal, and it is left in the fire until the lead evaporates. There can 410 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. hardly be a doubt that the refining process has been much the same atall times in antiquity. I call the read
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . Nos. 471-473. Small boat-like Basins of sun-dried Clay.(Nearly half actual size. Depth, 22 to 26 ft.) this purpose four times the quantity of lead is now added to the preciousmetal, and it is left in the fire until the lead evaporates. There can 410 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. hardly be a doubt that the refining process has been much the same atall times in antiquity. I call the readers particular attention to theshape of the vessel No. 471. As it runs out to a point to the right, doesit not appear to be the facsimile of an ancient ship, the oars beingindicated on each side by four incised vertical strokes ? A vessel some-what resembling this was found at the station of Locras in the Lake Very curious are the little terra-cotta spoons Nos. 474 and 475,which, as they are also but very slightly baked, may likewise have beenused by the Trojan metallurgists. Similar spoons are very rare at. cotta. (Half actual size. schist. (Half actual size. No. 477. Large serai-globular Funnel of Terra-cotta, withDepth, 22 to 26 ft.) Depth, 26 ft.) sieve-like holes. (Half actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) Hissarlik, but so they are elsewhere. A broken spoon of an identicalshape was found in the settlement of the Stone age at other similar specimens were found at Dozmat in the county ofVas, and at Tisza Ugh in the county of Heves, in A brokenterra-cotta spoon, found at Szihalom, is exhibited under No. 38 in theglass-case No. IX. in the National Museum of Buda-Pesth. Two suchterra-cotta spoons were found in the Lake-dwellings of the Stone age, atthe station of Auvernier in the Lake of Neufchatel,6 and at the stationof Gerofin in the Lake of Professor Virchow informs me thatspoons of baked clay now and then occur in ancient tombs in the
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