. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the 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. sor Landerer, who exa-mined these brush-handles very carefully, writes to me the following noteon the subject:—I succeeded in extracting from three of the smallholes some residue which, when put into a platinum spoon and burnt,gave the smell, not of animal, but of vegetable, matter. I thereforebelieve that little stalks of plants, like those which are now used astoothpicks, as the cor
. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the 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. sor Landerer, who exa-mined these brush-handles very carefully, writes to me the following noteon the subject:—I succeeded in extracting from three of the smallholes some residue which, when put into a platinum spoon and burnt,gave the smell, not of animal, but of vegetable, matter. I thereforebelieve that little stalks of plants, like those which are now used astoothpicks, as the corolla of Foeniculum, were put into the holesand constituted the brush proper. Besides, the holes are too large forbristles, unless several were fixed in one It deserves particular attention that these clay brush-handles weremerely dried in the sun and that none of them have been baked, exceptthose which have been exposed to an intense heat in the conflagration, inwhich many of them have been more or less burnt. I have further tonotice that these clay brush-handles are frequent in the third or burntcity, but that they never occurred in any of the other pre-historic cities. No. 4S8. No. ? No. 488. Terra-cotta Handle of a Trojan Brush, «ith the holes in which the bristUs have nxed.(Half actual size. Depth, 33 ft.) Nos. 4S9-491. Brush-handle of dried Clay, Object of Terra-cotta,and Ring of Mother-of-pearl. (1:3 actual size. Depth, 26 to 32 ft.) No. 490 is an object of slightly-baked clay, which may probably havebeen used for heckling yarn. No. 491 is a ring of mother-of-pearl. Nos. 492-499 are eight seals of very slightly-baked clay. Theseal No. 492 has in the handle a perforation for suspension with aBtring. Very curious are the signs which we see incised on it, and whichresemble written characters. Professor Sayce remarks to me: Thesigns all represent the same symbol, which is identical in form with acharacter met with in both the Hittite and the Cypriote insc
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