Schliemann, Heinrich: Troy and its remains: a narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Illium, and in the Trojan Plain (London, 1875)

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MEANING OF THE SUASTIKA.

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crosses on the under side, were found in the terramares of
Castione and Campeggine,* and are now in the Museum
of Parma. Many of these Trojan articles, and especially
those in the form of volcanoes, have crosses of the most
various descriptions, as may be seen in the lithographed

Nos. 66, 67, 68. Trojan SHng-bullets of Loadstone (9 and 10 m.).

drawings.f The form Ie& occurs especially often; upon
a great many we find the sign j^J, of which there are
often whole rows in a circle round the central point. In my
earlier reports I never spoke of these crosses, because their
meaning was utterly unknown to me.

This winter, I have read in Athens many excellent
works of celebrated scholars on Indian antiquities, especially
Adalbert Kuhn, Die Herabkunft des Fetters; Max
Miiller's Essays; Emile Burnouf, La Science des Reli-
gions and Essai sur le VMa, as well as several works
by Eugene Burnouf; and I now perceive that these crosses
upon the Trojan terra-cottas are of the highest importance
to archaeology. I therefore consider it necessary to enter
more fully into the subject, all the more so as I am now able
to prove that both the ft and the ^ , which I find in
mi'e Burnouf s Sanscrit lexicon, under the name of " sua-
sn^a, and with the meaning ev iari, or as the sign of good
vvisnes, were already regarded, thousands of years before

Gabriel de Mortillet, Le Signe de la Croix avant le Christianisme.
+ Plates XXI. to LIT. at the end of the volume.