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22 TROY AND ITS REMAINS.
axes, and the majority of them must have been used as
battle-axes. Many, to judge from their form, seem to be
excellently fitted to be employed as lances, and may have
been used as such. I have collected many hundreds of
them. But, together with the thousands of stone imple-
ments, I found also many of copper; and the frequently
discovered moulds of mica-schist for casting copper weapons
and implements, as well as the many small crucibles, and
small roughly made bowls, spoons, and funnels for filling the
moulds, prove that this metal was much used. The strata
of copper and lead scoriae, met with at a depth of from
28 to 29^ feet, leave no doubt that this was the case. It
must be observed that all the copper articles met with are
of pure copper, without the admixture of any other metal.*
Even the king's Treasure contained, besides other articles
made of this metal, a shield with a large boss in the
centre; a great caldron; a kettle or vase; a long slab with
a silver vase welded on to it by the conflagration; and
many fragments of other vases.f
This Treasure of the supposed mythical king Priam,
of the mythical heroic age, which I discovered at a great
depth in the ruins of the supposed mythical Troy, is at all
events a discovery which stands alone in archaeology, reveal-
ing great wealth, great civilization and a great taste for art,
in an age preceding the discovery of bronze, when weapons
and implements of pure copper were employed contempo-
raneously with enormous quantities of stone weapons and
implements. This treasure further leaves no doubt that
Homer must have actually seen gold and silver articles,
such as he continually describes ; it is, in every respect, of
* To this statement there are at least some exceptions. See the
Analysis by M. Damour, of Lyon, at the end of the book.—[Ed.]
I We omit here the Author's further enumeration of the objects
composing the " King's Treasure," as they are fully described on the
occasion of their wonderful discovery (Chapter XXIII.). Meanwhile
the Plate opposite gives a general view of the whole.—[Ed.]
axes, and the majority of them must have been used as
battle-axes. Many, to judge from their form, seem to be
excellently fitted to be employed as lances, and may have
been used as such. I have collected many hundreds of
them. But, together with the thousands of stone imple-
ments, I found also many of copper; and the frequently
discovered moulds of mica-schist for casting copper weapons
and implements, as well as the many small crucibles, and
small roughly made bowls, spoons, and funnels for filling the
moulds, prove that this metal was much used. The strata
of copper and lead scoriae, met with at a depth of from
28 to 29^ feet, leave no doubt that this was the case. It
must be observed that all the copper articles met with are
of pure copper, without the admixture of any other metal.*
Even the king's Treasure contained, besides other articles
made of this metal, a shield with a large boss in the
centre; a great caldron; a kettle or vase; a long slab with
a silver vase welded on to it by the conflagration; and
many fragments of other vases.f
This Treasure of the supposed mythical king Priam,
of the mythical heroic age, which I discovered at a great
depth in the ruins of the supposed mythical Troy, is at all
events a discovery which stands alone in archaeology, reveal-
ing great wealth, great civilization and a great taste for art,
in an age preceding the discovery of bronze, when weapons
and implements of pure copper were employed contempo-
raneously with enormous quantities of stone weapons and
implements. This treasure further leaves no doubt that
Homer must have actually seen gold and silver articles,
such as he continually describes ; it is, in every respect, of
* To this statement there are at least some exceptions. See the
Analysis by M. Damour, of Lyon, at the end of the book.—[Ed.]
I We omit here the Author's further enumeration of the objects
composing the " King's Treasure," as they are fully described on the
occasion of their wonderful discovery (Chapter XXIII.). Meanwhile
the Plate opposite gives a general view of the whole.—[Ed.]