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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TROJAN TERRA-COTTAS.

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owl's face, two female breasts and a large navel; of the face
only one eye and an ear is preserved. I must draw especial

Mo. 164. Terra-cotta Pot-lid, engraved
with symbolical marks (6 m.).

No. 165. A curious Terra-cotta Idol of the Ilian
Athena (7 M.}.

attention to the fact that both upon the vases with owls'
heads two female breasts and a navel, and upon all of the
others without the owl's face and adorned only with two
female breasts and a navel, the latter is always ten times
larger than the breasts. I therefore presume that the navel
had some important significance, all the more so as it is
frequently decorated with a cross, and in one case even with
a cross and the marks of a nail at each of the four ends
of the cross.* We also discovered among the ruins of
the small and very ancient building some pretty wedges
(battle-axes), and a number of very rude hammers made
of diorite ; besides a quantity of those small red and black
terra-cotta whorls, with the usual engravings of four or
five pj-l, or of three, four, or rive triple rising suns in the
circle round the central sun, or with other extremely strange
decorations.

At a depth of 7 to 8 meters (23 to 16 feet), we also
came upon a number of vases having engraved decorations,
and with three feet or without feet, but generally with rings
at the sides and holes in the mouth for suspension by
strings; also goblets in the form of a circular tube, with a
long spout at the side for drinking out of, which is always

* See Cut, No. 13. p. 35.