Of particular interest is an object of Egyptian porce-



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iX\' Spa T<lEai<ru' «} tOmpi^ dit hirf
IXior til $41,' Iworro rtwaiSirif tlair twtira

* Whoever wishes to learn more about sling-bullets should read
Gottrried Semper's excellent work Ue^er die SckUitdergtsckosse der Alien
und uber zweckmassi^ Gestaltung der Wur/korper im Allgemeinen,
FrankfuTt-on-the- Maine, 1859.
I20 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [CHAP. III.
lain in the shape of a thick needle with two pointed ends,
each of which is perforated ; its use is quite unintelligible
to us.*

There were further found in the temple A very numerous
whorls of terra-cotta with an incised ornamentation ; twenty-
six of them were found in one heap immediately in front of
the pronaos. I give four of them under Nos. 49-5*»
ornamented with very curious scratchings, which may per-
haps turn out to be written characters. The only thing we
can recognize is a branch on the left side of the whorl



\i dcpih about i'sfim-



No. 49. The scratching on the upper part of No. 5 1 may
represent a bird, for two legs and a beak seem to be indicated.
