Ilios; the city and country of the Trojans. The results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author (1880)
Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890, Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902, Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900, Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933, Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919, Brugsch, Heinrich, 1827-1894, Ascherson, Paul, 1834-1913, Postolakas, Achilles, Burnouf, Emile, 1821-1907, Calvert, Frank, Dufield, Alexander James, 1821-90 · New York: Harper & Bros · leaf 245
thefollowing manner :— Before the baking, the vases were oiled over with tar(iriacra), or perhaps with the pissa asphalt of Herodotus,5 which occurson the island of Zacynthus. In the baking the rosin was changed intothe finest coal, which got attached to the exterior layer of clay of thevases and… … Another fine specimen of this sort is represented by the little hand-made globular tripod No. 44, which has not been covered over with fineclean clay, and has its surface therefore very rude and unequal. Gold-like or silver-like sparkles of the mica contained in the clay may be seenglittering on…
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