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 . ent necklaces. No. 73 is a terra-cotta oenochoc, with a straight neckbent back, a pretty handle, and a convex bottom. Thetaste for vases with long straight necks has also survivedin the Troad, and enormous masses of them may be seenin the Turkish potters shops in the Dardanelles. In spiteof their gildings and their other ornamentation, they cannotbe compared to the Trojan vases, either for fabri
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 . ent necklaces. No. 73 is a terra-cotta oenochoc, with a straight neckbent back, a pretty handle, and a convex bottom. Thetaste for vases with long straight necks has also survivedin the Troad, and enormous masses of them may be seenin the Turkish potters shops in the Dardanelles. In spiteof their gildings and their other ornamentation, they cannotbe compared to the Trojan vases, either for fabric or forelegance of form. But nevertheless they give us another Chap. III.] OENOCHOAE IN THE SECOND TEMPLE 143 remarkable proof that, in si)ite of all political revolutions,certain types of terra-cottas may he preserved in a countrvfor more than three thousand years, A terra-cotta vase similar to No. 73 is in the Etruscancollection in the Museum of the Vatican, and two are inthe Museum at Turin. Another, found at Ovieto, is in theCypriote collection in the Egyptian Museum at Etruscan collection at Corneto (Tarquinii) containstwo somewhat similar vases, which are, however, of a much. No. 73.—OenoLiji ^ , « nu ,i >ir:iiglu neck and convexbottom. Size 1:4; depth about 9 m. later period. I may also mention vases with a straightneck, though with a painted linear ornamentation, one ofwhich is in the Cabinet des Medailles, the other in theMusee du Louvre, at Paris. I also found in my excava-tions at Mycenae ten * similar jugs, but with the spoutturned slightly backwards ; two similar ones, with necks bent ? Instead of only three, as I stated erroneously in 7/ios, p. 387. 144 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. back, are in the Louvre, and two in the private collectionof M. Eugene Piot at Paris. All other places where oenocJioaclike No. 73 may be seen are indicated in Ilios^ p. 387. Of terra-cottas of the second settlement I furtherrepresent under No. 74 a lustrous bl
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