Schliemann, Heinrich: On the site of the Homeric Troy: read june 24th, 1875 (London, 1877)

On the Site of the Homeric Troy.

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foot they cannot be put down except on the mouth. Their form is highly prac-
tical, for he who holds such a Beira? a^ucv-rreWov is forced to empty it, and, since it
can only he put down on the mouth, it remains always clean. (See Plate VI.
fig. 5.)

TWO VIEWS OF TWO-HANDLED CUP OF GOLD, FROM HISSARLIK.

I found, besides, in the treasure six flat blades, or slabs, of purest silver, one end
of which is round, whilst the other is cut out in the form of a half-moon. In all
probability these are the talents, so often mentioned by Homer, and which must
have been but small, for Achilles puts (II. xvii. 262—270) as the price of the first
game a woman, of the second a horse, of the third a casserole or kettle, of the
fourth two talents, and of the fifth a </ud\v a^LOero^, that is to say, a cup with two
handles. I further found in the treasure four large silver vases with a
hemispheric base; on one of them is soldered the upper part of another silver
vase. The largest vase contained two magnificent golden diadems, which
Mr. Gladstone identifies with the nXe/cral avaBea/j,al of Homer; they are adorned