Ilios; the city and country of the Trojans. The 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 (14777154092)

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Title: Ilios; the city and country of the Trojans. The 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
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902 Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919 Brugsch, Heinrich, 1827-1894 Ascherson, Paul, 1834-1913 Postolakas, Achilles Burnouf, Emile, 1821-1907 Calvert, Frank Dufield, Alexander James, 1821-90
Subjects: Archaeology
Publisher: New York: Harper & Bros
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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No. 1134. Curious lustrous-black Jug, having abottom with eleven perforations.(Half actual size. Depth, 1G ft.) No. 1134 is a very massive lustrous-black jug, having a flat bottom witheleven perforations. Though but slightly baked, it is very solid; it has
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Nos. 1135, 1136. Large Vessels of lustrous-black Terra-colta, with four handles.(1: 8 actual size. Depth, 14 to 20 ft.) 2 N 546 THE FOURTH CITY ON THE SITE OF TROY. (Chap. VIII. a trefoil orifice and a rope-like handle; it has round the neck an incisedzigzag decoration, from which bands of a rude linear ornamentationextend downwards, right and left. All these incised ornaments seem tohave been made with pointed flints ; they are filled in with white chalk, inorder to strike the eye. The peculiar sort of clay of this jug, its shape,fabric, and deeply-incised decoration, are widely different from all that weare accustomed to find here. I only found the very same clay and fabricin the vase-head Nos. 1002 and 1003, in the terra-cotta ball No. 1993, andin the vases Nos. 1135 and 1136. If the clay of which these five objectswere made, and the potter who made them, had belonged to Troy, weshould undoubtedly have found more specimens of such ware. I thereforefeel bold to attribute to these ob