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 . pitchers, with threehorns or breast-like bosses; most of them have all round the body a decora-tion of vertical concave incisions or impressions, and many have each of theprotuberances surrounded by three or four concentric circles of concavelines. The slight baking of these pitchers could not be better shownthan by the variety of colours we often see on one and the same pitcher,for it is of a
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 . pitchers, with threehorns or breast-like bosses; most of them have all round the body a decora-tion of vertical concave incisions or impressions, and many have each of theprotuberances surrounded by three or four concentric circles of concavelines. The slight baking of these pitchers could not be better shownthan by the variety of colours we often see on one and the same pitcher,for it is of a dull blackish colour where it is but very slightly baked, paleyellow in places where it has been a little more exposed to the fire, andreddish or brown where it has been long in a great heat. Apart fromthe three breast-like or horn-like excrescences, these pitchers have, inrespect to shape, fabric, and ornamentation, a great resemblance to vasesfound in sepulchres at Kovio in We see the three breast-likeexcrescences also on the large hand-made, heavy, dull blackish jugNo. 1373, which has one handle and an incised decoration of zigzag lines,with a horizontal band of lines round the No. 1316. Two-handled Cup, with impressed linearornamentation. (1: 4 actual size. Depth, 6 ft.) The heavy hand-made, double-handled cups Nos. 1376 and 1377 arelikewise of a dull blackish colour, and seem to be in shape, clay, andornamentation, the exact counterparts of two similar double-handled cupsfound at Yolterra, and of many others found by Zannoni in his excavationsat the necropolis of Felsina at A double-handled cup of anidentical form, found at Corneto in Italy, is in the Eoyal Museum atBerlin. No. 1378 marks a hand-made double-handled bowl of the same clayand colour. Nos. 1379, 1380, and 1381 are hand-made cups of the same
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