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 . No. 1200. Ierforated Clay Cylinder. (Half actual , laft.) and fabric are found in the Lake-dwellings in the Lake of Constance,1 and,as Professor Yirchow informs me, they are found in tombs in many regionsof Germany. I also saw several specimens of them in the Museum of theLacustrine Antiquities at Zurich, though I do not see them represented inFerd. Kellers Pfalilbauten (7ter Bericht)
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 . No. 1200. Ierforated Clay Cylinder. (Half actual , laft.) and fabric are found in the Lake-dwellings in the Lake of Constance,1 and,as Professor Yirchow informs me, they are found in tombs in many regionsof Germany. I also saw several specimens of them in the Museum of theLacustrine Antiquities at Zurich, though I do not see them represented inFerd. Kellers Pfalilbauten (7ter Bericht). The use of these cylinders isunknown to us. We cannot admit Lindenschmits2 opinion, that theyserved as weights for fishing-nets, as they are not baked, and would,. No. 1202. Implement of Clay, with perforation. No. 1203. Perforated Implement of Clay. (Half actual size. Depth, 19 ft.) (Half actual size. Dsptb, 19 ft.) , consequently, dissolve in the water. Of precisely the same fabric are thenearly flat objects of sun-dried clay, like No. 1202, which are also very fre- L. Lindenschmit, Die Vatcrlandischen Alterthumer, PI. xxx. No. 16. 2 Ibid. p. 218. 560 THE FOURTH CITY ON THE SITE OF TROY. [Chap. VIII. quent, not only in the third, the burnt, and the fourth cities, but also in thefifth: they have a perforation near the smaller end; in a few cases theyhave a furrow all round the edge, or only on the edge of the smaller objects of clay occur also in the uppermost or seventh city; butthere they are thoroughly baked, and have a more symmetrical object of baked clay of an identical shape was found below the strataof pumice-stone and volcanic ashes in Thera (Santorin), and is in the col-lection of the French School at Athens. An o
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