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20,000 fragments on the site of the library of the Palace of 
Sennacherib at Kouyunjik, buried in the unexcavated portion, 
which would reward further labours, and it would require an 
outlay of £5,000 and three years’ work to recover this treasure.* 
Passing now from Assyria and Egypt, the publication of Dr. 
Schliemann’s book giving the account of his excavations on the 
plain of Troy, and the illustrations which it contains have given 
scholars an opportunity of judging for themselves how far he has 
succeeded in identifying the remains on Mount Hissarlick with 
the site of Priam’s Pergamus. The discoveries which he is 
reported to have made led Mr. Newton to examine very carefully 
the remains that had been disinterred, and in April, 1874, he laid 
before the Society of Antiquaries the result of his investigations. 
These are now published in the Society’s Proceedings, p. 215. He 
states that the pottery found at Hissarlick resembles that found 
“on three sites, Marino, Santorin and Cyprus, each of which sites 
has yielded remains presumed to be of very high antiquity.” “It 
resembles in shape the ancient pottery of Italy, Santorin, Cyprus 
and Germany,” and that it is not only non-Hellenic but also pre- 
Hellenic, and is earlier than the Greco-Phenician.” He supposes 
that the whorls of spindles of which so many drawings are given 
with the Graffiti workings upon them, and which have been 
variously, but not satisfactorily, explained, are not really whorls 
but were worn strung like beads, being pierced through the centre, 
and may have been amulets. The figures on the Assyrian friezes 
represent persons wearing necklaces and amulets formed of stone 
pierced through and engraved. 
* Among the most interesting additions to the British Museum are the 
fragments of a throne in rock ‘crystal which belonged to Sennacherib, and on 
which he may have sat when directing his haughty menace to Hezekiah. The 
throne appears to have been destroyed by fire. A curious fork was found by 
Mr. Smith in his excavations at Nimroud. It is a straight bident with a 
twisted handle, terminating in a horse’s head. The workmanship is beautiful, 
but gives indications of Greek and Sassanian influence. 
