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.

[Chap. X.

cottas were brought out in a broken condition; however, I
have got all or almost all the pieces of a number of vases
and of several jars, so that I can restore them. I must
specially mention a large yellowish bowl 13^ inches high
and nearly 17 inches broad, which in addition to a handle
has three large curled ram's horns ; then a black vase with a
round bottom, with two rings on either side for hanging it up;
a beautiful red vase with four handles; also a very fine red
cup : further, an exceedingly
curious red vessel in the form
of two jugs with long per-

No. 106. Black Vase of Terra-cotta from the
lowest Stratum (14 or 15 M.).

No. 105. Singular Double Vase from the
lowest Stratum (13-14 M,).

fectly upright beak-shaped
mouths, the two jugs being
connected with each other
at the bulge, as well as by a
handle ; further, a brilliant
black vase, 9^ inches high, with rings on the sides for
hanging it up, and a very wide neck in the form of a
chimney; the lower portion of the vase is ornamented with
signs in the form of lightning, the upper part with dots.
Of a pair of brilliant black Trojan deep plates I have so
nearly all the pieces, as to be able to put them together;
these plates are very remarkable, for on two sides at the
edge they have long horizontal rings for suspension by