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well made. Female faces you see on none of the vases, 

 but still many of the latter are made to represent the 

 woman, for they have two breasts and a navel. Many 

 Trojan vases, and particularly of those in a less depth 

 than 7 metres, have also 2 female breasts and a navel, 

 but no female face, but then the shape of those vases 

 is altogether different from those found in Thera and 

 Therassia. If the Trojan vases have ornaments they 

 have always been carved in the clay when it was still 

 soft, and if the Trojan vases or other terra-cottas are 

 coloured they never present more than one colour, 

 whilst the ornamentation of the Thera and Therassia 

 vase is never carved and always painted by various 

 colours. I have neither found the slightest resemblance 

 in the quality of the terra-cotta. These round pieces of 

 terra-cotta without ornamentation have been found 

 there which resemble a little those volcano and carrousel 

 shaped pieces of Troy, but the quality of the clay is 

 inferior to any I found in Ilium, also a broken piece of 

 an ornamented one was found, but the ornamentation 

 consists merely of points which are stuck in on the 

 sides of the piece, and not on its basis as in Troy. The 

 Thera and Therassia funnels of terra-cotta are of 

 immense size and covered with painted ornaments, 

 while the Trojan funnels from 14 to 3 m. depth are 

 only 6 to 8 cem. long, and unpainted. On the whole 

 it is impossible for me to say which terra-cottas show 

 more civilization, those of the two islands or of Troy, 

 because they are completely different. The only resem- 

 blance I find between the ruins of Thera and Therassia 

 and those of Troy is the architecture, for, like the Trojan 

 houses on the virgin soil and like the Great Tower and 

 the walls in the N. side of Ilium, all houses and 

 enclosures of the primitive inhabitants of Thera and 

 Therassia consisted of stones joined with clay ; but I 

 have seen there no wall thicker than 40 centimetres. 



I beg leave to send you herewith also some photo- 

 graphs of a part of the antiquities which I discovered 

 last year at Ilium in a depth of from 5 to 9 metres ; 

 these same objects will appear in my present work in 

 4to, together with all the curiosities I found this year. 

 If you wish to have a photograph of the most ancient 

 Trojan antiquities, say of those objects found in 16 to 

 19 m. in depth, I shall be able to satisfy you, for I begin 



