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 . TaXei^fxaTa. 8 Apollod. Cyren. ap. Athen. xi. 74. 9 Considering the relations, now well esta-blished, of the people of Palestine and Phoeniciawith Asia Minor, it is very interesting to find,among the spoil taken by the Egyptian kingThutmes III. from Megiddo, a great flagon withtwo handles, a work of the KJial, / hoenieians,which reminds us of the silver vases named in11. xxiii. 741-43; Od.
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 . TaXei^fxaTa. 8 Apollod. Cyren. ap. Athen. xi. 74. 9 Considering the relations, now well esta-blished, of the people of Palestine and Phoeniciawith Asia Minor, it is very interesting to find,among the spoil taken by the Egyptian kingThutmes III. from Megiddo, a great flagon withtwo handles, a work of the KJial, / hoenieians,which reminds us of the silver vases named in11. xxiii. 741-43; Od. iv. 615-19. This is namedamong objects of gold and silver ; and, later on,among the spoils of Kadesh, the capital of thosevery Kheta, or Hittites, whom we have alreadyseen in connection with Troy, we find goldendishes and double-handled jugs, besides vessels otgold and silver wrought in the land of Zahi, (Brugsch, Hist, of Egypt under thePharaohs, vol. i. pp. 374, 379, 385, Engl, trans.,2nd ed.) Chap. VI.] VASE-COVERS; WHORLS; PLATES. 303 character of the vase ? On the top of it I have put the bell-shaped coverwith a double handle in the form of a crown, which was found close by,. No. 180. Large, lustrous-black Vase, found in th • Royal House. (About 1: 8 actual size. Dcptb, 30 ft.) and may possibly have belonged to it. Similar vase-covers, always of alustrous-black colour, occur in the second city, but they are rare here, ascompared with the abundance of them found in the upper pre-historiccities, and particularly in the third or burnt city. There was, no doubt, in the second city a vast variety of other pottery,but I have not been able to collect more types than those I have repre-sented, because, owing to the immense superincumbent masses of stones,nearly all the pottery has been smashed to small fragments. Of terra-cotta whorls, I have been able to collect a good number in thedebris of the second city, though they are far less abundant here thanin the subs
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