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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NAME OF MOUNT IDA

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No. 75 A Whorl, with three
animals {3 M.).

long teeth, forming a cross round the sun.* I conjecture
that these extremely remarkable hieroglyphics, which at
first sight might be imagined to be
actual letters, can by no means repre-
sent anything else than the sacrificial
altar with the flames blazing upon it.
I do not doubt moreover, that in the
continuation of the excavations I shall
find this comb-shaped sign together
with other symbols, which will confirm
my conjectures.

I must also add that the good old Trojans may perhaps
have brought with them from Bactria the name of Ida,
which they gave to the mountain which I see before me to
the south-east, covered with snow, upon which Jove and
Hera held dalliance,-)" and from which Jove looked down
upon Ilium and upon the battles in the Plain of Troy, for,
according to Max Miiller,J Ida was the wife of Dyaus
(Zeus), and their son was Eros. The parents whom Sappho
ascribes to Eros—Heaven and Earth—are identical with his
Vedic parents. Heracles is called 'iSeuos, from his being
identical with the Sun, and he has this name in common
with Apollo and Jove.

To-morrow the Greek Easter festival commences, during
which unfortunately there are six days on which no work is
done. Thus I shall not be able to continue the excava-
tions until the ist of May.

* See Plate XXXV., No. 414. The same symbol is seen on several
other examples.

t Iliad, XIV. 346-351. An English writer ought surely to use our
old-fashioned form Jove, which is also even philologically preferable as
the stem common to Zevs and _/«-piter (Aio = ZeF=Jov), rather than the
somewhat pedantically sounding Zeis.—[Ed.]

+ Essays, II. 93.