. 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. No. 41. No. Nos. 39-42. Fiagments of Pottery, with tubular holes for suspension.(About half actual size. Depth, 46 to 52 ft.) above fragments and bowls are of a lustrous black; and the larger theyare, so much the thicker are they in many places, so that, for instance, atthe lower end of the rim and in the base the clay is often rather more thanhalf an inch thick. Although the rich shi
. 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. No. 41. No. Nos. 39-42. Fiagments of Pottery, with tubular holes for suspension.(About half actual size. Depth, 46 to 52 ft.) above fragments and bowls are of a lustrous black; and the larger theyare, so much the thicker are they in many places, so that, for instance, atthe lower end of the rim and in the base the clay is often rather more thanhalf an inch thick. Although the rich shining deep black colour of thesebowls, enhanced as it is by its contrast to the fantastic rim-ornamentationfilled with white chalk, is really fascinating to the eye and looks like amirror, yet on close examination we find the surface of the bowls, bothoutside and inside, very uneven. But this could hardly be otherwise, asthey are all hand-made, and were polished with stones of porphyry,diorite, or jasper, expressly cut for the purpose, of which I found a greatquantity in this first city as well as in all the four successive pre-historiccities of Hissarlik. Fair specimens of these polishing stones are seen inthe chapte
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