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Manners and monuments of prehistoric peoples (1892)

Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de, 1818-1904, D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 353

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to 7f feet liigh (Fig. 91), ofwhich Schliemann found more than six hundred, nearlyall of them empty. Their size need not sui-prise us,for Ciampini ^ speaks of a pottery dolium of such vastsize and height that a ladder of ten or twelve rungswas needed to reach the opening.^ With these jai-swere… … Fig. 96.—Earthenware pig found at a depth of 13 feet. horns by which to lift them (Fig. 95). The pottergave free vent to his imagination, but the decorationsrepresenting fish-bones, palm branches, zigzags, circles,and dots, are all of very inferior execution. Two series of terra-cotta objects…

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