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TROY AND ITS REMAINS.
which as such is quite unknown to Homer. At a depth
of from 4 to 9 meters (13 to zgh feet), I also found some
vases and cups with a human face, but which have a good
deal of the owl about them.
As I did not find a trace of the owl's face among the
ruins of the Greek colony, we may regard it as certain that
it had already advanced beyond the civilization of the old
Ilians of whose town it took possession, and that it brought
the idea of the goddess with a human face with it to
Troy.
With regard to the often mentioned perforated terra-
cottas in the form of a top and the crater of a volcano,
adorned with Aryan religious symbols, it is possible that
their original form was that of a wheel, for they occur fre-
quently in this shape upon the primary rock at a depth of
from 14 to 16 meters (46 to 52^ feet).* In the upper layers
of debris, these objects in the form of wheels are indeed
rare, but the representation of the wheel in motion, effected
by the incisions being more numerous, still occurs very
frequently.! In spite of all my searching and pondering, I
have not yet succeeded in arriving at an opinion as to what
these extremely interesting objects were used for. As has
now become evident by the excavation of the temple of
Athena, it is only among the pre-Hellenic peoples that
they were adorned with Aryan symbols. In the Greek
colony these occur but rarely; they are of a different form,
and they possess no trace of carved decorations; instead of
these, we find the much larger objects of terra-cotta, round,
and twice perforated, which occasionally bear the mark of
a kind of stamp.J
Through the kindness of my friend Professor Giuseppe
G. Bianconi in Bologna, I have received the drawings of
* See the Sections on the Plates of Whorls.
t For examples of this type see Nos. 337, 340, 341, &c.
% See the Illustrations to Chapter II., p. 65.
TROY AND ITS REMAINS.
which as such is quite unknown to Homer. At a depth
of from 4 to 9 meters (13 to zgh feet), I also found some
vases and cups with a human face, but which have a good
deal of the owl about them.
As I did not find a trace of the owl's face among the
ruins of the Greek colony, we may regard it as certain that
it had already advanced beyond the civilization of the old
Ilians of whose town it took possession, and that it brought
the idea of the goddess with a human face with it to
Troy.
With regard to the often mentioned perforated terra-
cottas in the form of a top and the crater of a volcano,
adorned with Aryan religious symbols, it is possible that
their original form was that of a wheel, for they occur fre-
quently in this shape upon the primary rock at a depth of
from 14 to 16 meters (46 to 52^ feet).* In the upper layers
of debris, these objects in the form of wheels are indeed
rare, but the representation of the wheel in motion, effected
by the incisions being more numerous, still occurs very
frequently.! In spite of all my searching and pondering, I
have not yet succeeded in arriving at an opinion as to what
these extremely interesting objects were used for. As has
now become evident by the excavation of the temple of
Athena, it is only among the pre-Hellenic peoples that
they were adorned with Aryan symbols. In the Greek
colony these occur but rarely; they are of a different form,
and they possess no trace of carved decorations; instead of
these, we find the much larger objects of terra-cotta, round,
and twice perforated, which occasionally bear the mark of
a kind of stamp.J
Through the kindness of my friend Professor Giuseppe
G. Bianconi in Bologna, I have received the drawings of
* See the Sections on the Plates of Whorls.
t For examples of this type see Nos. 337, 340, 341, &c.
% See the Illustrations to Chapter II., p. 65.