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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
Subjects: Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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vessel has been exposed to the intense heat of the conflagration, by whichit has been thoroughly baked. The crown-shaped cover which we see onthe vase is very curious. Unlike the usual covers with a similar crown-like handle, this cover is not intended to be put over the neck of the vase,but to be put into it, like a stopper, because its lower part is hemi-spherical and hollow, with a wide orifice in the middle. By this con-trivance the cover could be put on the vase even when it was full, becausethe liquid would enter into the hollow. While all the vases whichI have hitherto passed in review, and all those which I shall pass inreview without a special notice to the contrary, are hand-made, this vase-cover is wheel-made, a circumstance which appears to prove that it doesnot belong to this particular vase. Chap. VII.) VARIOUS SUSPENSION VASES. 369 Under No. 305 I represent a globular lustrous-yellow vase found inthe royal house; it has the usual perforated projections for suspension on
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No. 304. Lustrous-red Vase of oval shape, -with rude linear ornamentation, having long perforated projections on the sides. (Half actual size. Depth, 24 ft.) No. 306. Vase ol oval form, with a hollow foot, tubular holes for suspension, and a projecting ornamentation. (1: 4 actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) the sides, and holes in the rim; its bottom is flat. Around the upperpart of the body is what has been taken for an incisedinscription, which Professor Sayce has discussed in hisdissertation on the Trojan inscriptions.^ The red vase No. 306 is of an oval shape, and hasthe same system for suspension as all the foregoing, ahollow foot, and a small neck; it has on each side of thebody a spiral decoration in relief, like the Cypriote cha-racter Ao. Of a far ruder fabric is the little vase No. 307, whichhas on each side two projections in the form of female

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