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also found. Vases with handles are rare, their place being
taken by small projections pierced either vertically or horizontally
for suspensory cords. Ornament, as a rule, is only
found on the interior of the cups, and is simply composed of
zigzags, straight lines, and dots incised in the clay and then
filled with white chalk. Sometimes rude attempts at the
human face are employed for decoration. There were many
spindle whorls both in the first and second strata. They also
are adorned with incised lines filled with chalk.
The Second City has a great citadel wall well preserved,
especially on the south. It had three gates, and within was
the palace, which in its general plan seems to have ivsombled
that at Tiryns.
The objects found within the citadel are of supi-emc interest,
especially those contained in The Great Ti-easure discovered by
Schliemann in 1873 buried deep in the fortress wall near one
of the gates. All the articles were packed into one another in
a rectangular mass, from which it is probable that they had
been placed inside a wo(jden chest. Dorpfeld has suggested
that there were casemates in the walls of Troy
as in those at
Tiryns, and that in one of these the treasure had been storetl.
Gold. Two large diadems formed by a number of small
chains. In one diadem the chains are composed of small heartshaped
leaves strung together with Hue wii-e the short chains
;
terminate in little
pendants like two spear-shaped leaves
growing together on one stem : the long ones end in j)enmall nn^s.
])ierced j)i-isms, di^(s. buttons, and tiny
bais. 'i'liere were >i\
bracelets, one ot wliid: wa-- >iin]ily
a, wire welded int() a i-ircle,
Hill.-!. ])]).
1(1 1 : Scliiu'hlifirdt, (ij). rit.. pp. .M; .si/./.
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the other five are formed of three wires terminating with a
knob at each end. There were about thirty pairs of earrings.
There were short pins fixed to hollow heads, and which fit into
sheaths provided with similar heads. There were three large
cups (one of pale gold), a spherical bottle, and a two-handled
Clip, shaped like a broad boat ;
its
body is of one piece,
while the handles have been soldered on. It has a spout at
each end.
Silver. There were several jars, one of which contained the
gold ornaments. Two vases had covers like caps, and had
instead of handles protuberances with vertical holes for suspension,
like the earthenware vessels found in both the first and
second strata. There are other vases, the largest of which has
a handle. There was a small cup and a dagger, like those of
bronze described below. There are six bars not unlike large
knife-blades ^
Bronze. There were spear-heads, daggers, and celts of
copper. The spear-heads are of a fiat
shape and are not
socketed, but furnished with tangs, in which
there are usually rivet-holes. The daggers have
a broad leaf-shaped blade terminating in a
thick round tang, which ran tiirough the handle,
and was bent round it at the bottom. The
axes are simple flat celts (Fig. 28). Analysis
has shown these weapons to be composed of
almost pure copper, the amount of tin being
extremely small.
There were also pots, cups, and finally the
hasp of the coffer which once held the treasure.
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There was
Copper
a copper knife bent at one end, and
Celt; Hissarlik. arrow-heads of a simple unbarbed type known
in
Hungary one ; example only was barbed.
The moulds found with the copper wea})ons show that the
latter were made nn the spot.
Tlioy cannot be the Homeric trilttnta, as Scliliemann supposed, for that
only \vei^,'h((l iibont 13.") rrrs. Troy, and is only mentioned in connection with
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