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. UiubuiarJug. ueck. (Nearly 1:4 actual size. projections like ears. (About (About 1: 4 actual size. Depth, 2C ft.) Depth, 26 ft.) 1: 4 actual size. Deptb, 2G ft.) No. 377 represents a lustrous dark-red globular bottle, with a longnarrow upright neck. Such bottles are not frequent at Troy. Two hand-made terra-cotta bottles of the same shape, the one yellow, the otherblack, found in tombs near
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. UiubuiarJug. ueck. (Nearly 1:4 actual size. projections like ears. (About (About 1: 4 actual size. Depth, 2C ft.) Depth, 26 ft.) 1: 4 actual size. Deptb, 2G ft.) No. 377 represents a lustrous dark-red globular bottle, with a longnarrow upright neck. Such bottles are not frequent at Troy. Two hand-made terra-cotta bottles of the same shape, the one yellow, the otherblack, found in tombs near Bethlehem, are in the British Museum, whichalso contains, in its Assyrian Collection, a wheel-made bottle of a similarform from Nimroud. Wheel-made terra-cotta bottles of a like shapeare likewise found in tombs in Cyprus, as well as in ancient Egyptiansepulchres, and the British Museum contains several specimens of themin its collections of Cypriote and Egyptian antiquities. Several terra-cotta bottles of a similar shape were also found by General di Cesnola in No. Nos. 379-381. Jugs of globular form, with one handle, (l: 4 actual size. Diptb, 22 to 32ft. Chap. VIL] BOTTLE SHAPED JUGS. 391 I may mention one more such terra-cotta bottle from Cyprus,in the South Kensington Museum at London. SomThat similar to No. 377 is the jug No. 378, winch has on eitherside below the rim a projecting ornament in the form of an ear. Three very pretty lustrous yellowor red oval-shaped jugs, with spoutsupright or slightly turned back arerepresented under Nos. 379, 380,and 381; all of them have a convexbottom. No. 379 has on each sideof the orifice a round excres-cence, in the form of an eye. has a rope-formed handle, andabove the body a projecting band,ornamented with vertical similar jugs, but wheel-made,are in the Egyptian Collection ofthe British Museum. Jugs of asimilar shape are frequent at Troy,but, except the two Egyptian spe-cimens, I am not aware that t
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