Spindles (cf. SPINNING AND Whorls),
found by Dr. V. Gross still sticking
in whorls, 41 ; Egyptian, from
Thebes, with whorls, and thread
still attached, 295-6 ; in the O. T.,
296 ; used with or without the dis-
taff (ff. v.), ib,; the Greek and
Roman, - 297-8 ; confused with the



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INDEX.
STREETS.
distaff, ib,j golden, of goddesses and
great ladies, 298 ; as votive offer-
ing^ especially to Pallas, 299, 300 ;
her emblem on coins and in the
Palladium, 220, 30a

SpindU-whorls^ Mr. H. Rivett-Camac
on, 39. {See Whorls.)

spinning by hand among the ancients,
293) f< ; on the monuments of Egypt,
293-5 ; in the O. T., 296 ; in Homer
and later, 296-7 ; the process de-
scribed, 297, f. ; modem disuse of,
300 ; still used in Greece, ib.
Spiral Decoration^ hke Cypriote Ko;
on vases (c. 2), 146 ; parallels, 147 ;
on archaic Ilian (c. 7) and Mycenean
pottery, 216.
Spitting; charm against demons, 289.
Spoons; one of ivory (c. 2), 117 ; rude
terra-cotta (c. 2), 153 ; parallels, ib.
Spratt ; Map of the Troad,305-6, 343.
springs; the one nearest to Hissarlik,
10 ; in cavern W. of Hissarlik, 64 ;
used for washing in Graeco- Roman
time, 65 ; answers to the springs of
Homer, ib.; the site corresponds to
the description, ib,; flow into the
Scamander, and may have been
called its sources, 66 ; no trace of
the warm spring, already lost in anti-
quity, ib, : — three, N. of Ilium, flow
into the Simois, and may have been
called its sources, 66 : — abundant on
Ida, 331 ; temperatures of springs in
Troad, 347.
Springs of Bounarbashi ; no Trojan
wash-basins at, 268-9.
