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 . ronze 1and six wheels of gold with four Inthe Swiss Lake-dwellings at the station ofCorcelettes were found two ornaments ofbronze in the shape of a wheel with four spokes, and two others of gold with six spokes;3 also an ornament oftin, and another of bronze, in the form of wheels with four spokes, at thestation of We see also wheels with four spokes on twominiature bronze
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 . ronze 1and six wheels of gold with four Inthe Swiss Lake-dwellings at the station ofCorcelettes were found two ornaments ofbronze in the shape of a wheel with four spokes, and two others of gold with six spokes;3 also an ornament oftin, and another of bronze, in the form of wheels with four spokes, at thestation of We see also wheels with four spokes on twominiature bronze chariots found at Burg in the bed of the river Sprea,and of which one is in Professor Yirchows collection, the other in theBoyal Museum at Berlin; and also on two other chariots of bronze, oneof which was found at Ober-Kehle, the other near Drossen, in shall revert to these four chariots in the subsequent pages. The Trojanwheel before us (No. 1253) is unlike the wheels (kv/cXo) of Homers chariotof the gods, which had eight spokes round the No. 1254 is the fragment of a flat disc of ivory, decorated with incisedcircles, each with a dot in the centre. Nos. 1255, 1256 are also flat. No. 1253. Wheel of Lead.(2:3 actual size. Depth, 16 ft.) 10 See my Mycenae, p. 52, No. 24; p. 81,No. 140; p. 86, No. Ibid. p. 223, No. Ibid. p. 74, No. Ibid. p. 203, No. 316. 3 V. Gross, Eesultats des Recherches executeesdans les Lacs de la Suisse occidental; Zurich,1876, PI. viii. Nos. 9, 16, 18, 19. 4 V. Gross, Deux Stations lacustres, Moeringenet Auvernier; Neuveville, 1878, PI. vii. , 61. 5 II. v. 722, 723 : H/37J 8 a/x(f) oxteccri Oows /3aAe KajxirvXa KvKkaXctA/cea oKraKvr\}xa, ai^piw a^ovi a/ncpis. My friend Mr. W. S. W. Vaux calls myattention to the fact that the four-spokedchariot-wheel is characteristic of the earliestGreek coins. The early Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Assyrian wheels have six spokes. ThePersian Achaemenid sculptures show chariotswith eigh
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