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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TROY AND ITS REMAINS. [Ch. VIII. 1872.

from the upper and the lower side, and from the two per-
forations, it must have been the setting and decoration of
a wooden jewel-casket. It is made with so much symmetry
and looks so elegant, that I at first thought it was ebony
inlaid with ivory.

At the depth of 8 meters (26 feet) I found a terra-
cotta seal an inch and a half in length, with a hole for
suspending it; there are a number of signs
upon it resembling the ancient Koppa—like
that stamped upon Corinthian coins. *

At a depth of 5 meters (i6| feet), I found
to-day a very pretty jar with three feet, which is
evidently intended to represent a woman, pro-
bably the Ilian Athena, for it has two breasts

No. 78. A Tro-
jan Terracotta and a navel.

Seal (8 m.)

The snakes seem to have been enticed out
of their winter quarters by the warm weather which has set
in; for it is ten days since I have seen any.

Amid all the fatigues and troubles of the excavations
there is this among other pleasures, that time never hangs
heavy on one's hands.

* As the device on a seal may be presumed to be significant, and as
patterns strikingly similar to this occur on some of the whorls (e.g-
on Plate XLIV., No. 461), we have a strong argument for the significance
of the latter class of devices.—[Ed.]

No. 78*. Terra-cottas with Aryan Emblems.