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 . ht projections. Size 1:4; depth about s ni. came to an end; but, as we found the upper part of itsfortification-walls destroyed, it is natural to suppose thatthe settlement may have perished by the hand of see in several houses traces of fire, but tiicse are notmore considerable than those in the third settlement, andcertainly there has not been a general destruction. We found again i
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 . ht projections. Size 1:4; depth about s ni. came to an end; but, as we found the upper part of itsfortification-walls destroyed, it is natural to suppose thatthe settlement may have perished by the hand of see in several houses traces of fire, but tiicse are notmore considerable than those in the third settlement, andcertainly there has not been a general destruction. We found again in the dc^bris of the fourth settlementa very large quantity of pottery, like that rej)resented anddiscussed in Ilios, pp. 521—562, Xos. 986-1219, but no §11.] OWL-FACED VASES. 187 new tvpcs, except two vases with owl-faces and the charac-teristics of a woman, which I represent here under , 98, because they differ from any of those I have shownin Ilios. On the vase No. 97, the owl-face is very rude ; the beakis long and pointed, the eyes are indicated by semi-globulardots ; the eyebrows by a horizontal line in relief; the femalebreasts and vulva are \vell marked ; the rim of the orifice. No. 98.—Vase with the charact ristics of a woman and twowing-like upright projections. The cover has an 1:4; depth about 5 m. is bent over ; the bottom is flat; the wings are indicated byvertical projections. No. 98 is one of those vases wdiichhave two wing-like vertical projections, two female breastsand the vulva, but a smooth cylindrical neck, on which isput a separate cover with an owl-face. This vase-cover isparticularly remarkable for its large semi-globular eyes andhigh protruding eyebrows. The forms of these sacred Trojan vases have changed l88 FIFTH PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT. [Chap. IV. somewhat in the course of ages; but, although they havelost their owl-heads and wings, yet their types may easily berecognized in the vases with two female breasts with whichthe pot
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