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. XX.

The upper portions of both helmets have, however,
been well preserved; and these parts form the "<£aXos," or

No. 190. Skull of a Trojan Warrior, belonging to one of the two Skeletons found in the House on
the Tower (7 M.). It is long, but narrow.

No. 191. (n) The upper and (*) lower pieces of a Trojan Helmet-crest (i^aAos) placed together-
[c.) A small piece of the Helmet remains adhering to the lower part of the Crest_(7 M^-
A pin, fastened to the front of the part {b), goes into the hollow base of («), and supports it. l^
the figures on p. 334.)

ridge, in which the "\6<f>o<s iTrirovpis" or horse-hair plume,
so frequently mentioned in the Iliad, was fixed."* In both

* Homer's Iliad, III. 362 ; IV. 450 ; VI. 9 ; XIII. 132 ; XVI. 216.