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 . No. 71.—Very rude figure of terra-cotta. Size 3:4; depth about No. 72.—Fragment of an Idol ofterra-cotta, with two large owlseyes. Size 3:4; depth about8*50 m. less indicates the eyebrows ; three incised lines on the neckmay perhaps be meant to represent 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
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 . No. 71.—Very rude figure of terra-cotta. Size 3:4; depth about No. 72.—Fragment of an Idol ofterra-cotta, with two large owlseyes. Size 3:4; depth about8*50 m. less indicates the eyebrows ; three incised lines on the neckmay perhaps be meant to represent 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 Museu
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