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 . ter mo, which so frequently occurs in the preceding Prof. Sayce shows in his Appendix, these funnels are almost identical inshape, material, and character with a funnel found by Mr. George Smithunder the floor of the palace of Assur-bani-pal or Sardanapalus at Kou-yunjik, and inscribed with Trojan characters, which was probably broughtto Nineveh by the Lydian ambassadors of Gyges. The
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 . ter mo, which so frequently occurs in the preceding Prof. Sayce shows in his Appendix, these funnels are almost identical inshape, material, and character with a funnel found by Mr. George Smithunder the floor of the palace of Assur-bani-pal or Sardanapalus at Kou-yunjik, and inscribed with Trojan characters, which was probably broughtto Nineveh by the Lydian ambassadors of Gyges. They seem to havebeen used as measuring vessels, and the word mo with which they areinscribed may be derived from the Aryan root ma, to 1340 is another terra-cotta seal, better baked, but decorated merelywith small concentric No. 1341 is a perforated object of stone of unknownuse. No. 1342 is a large saw of silex, with marks onits upper part of its having been cased in a woodenhandle. To the many localities enumerated in thepreceding pages where similar flint saws are found,I can now also add Egypt; for in Fr. Mooks AegyptensVormetalliscJie Zeit3 I find a great many silex saws.
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