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 . for suspension with astring. Very curious are the signs which we see incised on it, and whichresemble written characters. Professor Sayce remarks to me: Thesigns all represent the same symbol, which is identical in form with acharacter met with in both the Hittite and the Cypriote inscriptions, inthe latter of which it has the value of ne, and which may be the origin ofthe Trojan swastika On th
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 . for suspension with astring. Very curious are the signs which we see incised on it, and whichresemble written characters. Professor Sayce remarks to me: Thesigns all represent the same symbol, which is identical in form with acharacter met with in both the Hittite and the Cypriote inscriptions, inthe latter of which it has the value of ne, and which may be the origin ofthe Trojan swastika On the seal No. 493 we see two crosses, of whichthe one is incised, the other marked with dots. On No. 494 are incisedzigzag lines and some straight strokes; No. 495, again, has incisedcrosses. On No. 496 we see a PJ-1, with its arms curved into spirals;on No. 497, nothing but dots; and on No. 498, an incised cross and 10 This is no objection, as ordinary brushes are always made with a bunch of bristles in each hole. Chap. TERRA-COTTA SEALS. 415 dots. My friend Mr. Panagiotes Eustratiades, Director-General ofAntiquities in Greece, remarks to me that No. 493 may not be a seal. No. 493. No. (7 : 8 actual size. Depth, 26 to 35 ft.) but the button or handle of a vase-cover. That may be so, but all therest are certainly seals. The most curious of all is the terra-cotta seal No. 499, which has aperforation for suspension. Its handle has on two sides an incisedherring-bone ornamentation, and on the third side, the one to the rightin the cut, an incised inscription, in which, as Professor Sayce says, characters also found in the Cypriote syllabary can be easily Cypriote character representing e, in an older form than any metwith in Cyprus itself, is engraved on the die of the seal. Both theinscription on the handle and that on the seal are discussed by in his Appendix on the Trojan The most strikinganalogy to the Trojan seals is offered
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