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On one, No. 5 o£ iitiy sketch, will be seen the broad arrow noticeable on 

 Schliemann's No. 458. On another, No. G, is what looks like the sign of 

 Saturn or what Dr. Schliemann calls the " mystic rose," well known on 

 Buddhist coins and in Buddhist art. They all have more or less orna- 

 mentation at the edges, resembling the spokes of a wheel or possibly the 

 rays of the sun. 



I also obtained at Sankisa several stone discs of nearly the same 

 sliape as the Terra Cottas. They are all highly polished. One is of black 

 marble, another of crystal. Several are of red marble, and the material must 

 have been brought from a distance, as no stone save kunkur is to be found 

 within many miles of Sankisa. It will be noticed that all these stone speci- 

 mens are grooved at the edges, see the section in sketch No. 8, whereas 

 but few of the clay specimens have received such treatment. 



Type B, sketch No. 9, on Plate XIV consists of clay discs similar in 

 most respects to the foregoing, save that a hole has been drilled through 

 the centre of each. I did not pay any particular attention to the propor- 

 tion in which these different classes were brought to me in camp. But I 

 find that I have many more of the plain discs than of those which have 

 been pierced. There can be little doubt, however, that many hundreds of 

 the pierced ones might have been obtained on the spot, and I am sending 

 to ascertain whether any more ornamented specimens are procurable. 

 The specimen marked and figured in sketch No. 10 is of grey granite. It 

 bears the same relation to the pierced clay discs as the stone and crystal 

 discs mentioned above bear to the clay whorls of type A. In the centre is 

 a hole, round which are six concentric circles. 



The specimen figured in sketch No. 11, is of a somewhat different 

 type from the foregoing, as a section of the sketch will explain. The 

 impressions of the spokes of a wheel with dots between each spoke appear 

 to have been made in a stamp or mould. I find I have only two of this 

 class in my collection. But doubtless hundreds more might have been 

 obtained had! not been afraid of burdening myself during the march with 

 too large a collection of such specimens. 



Of type C, Sketches Nos. 12 and 13, on Plate XIV, which may be 

 described in Dr. Schliemann's words as being in the form of a " top or 

 crater of a volcano" I have, I find, but 4 or 5 specimens ; I have little 

 doubt that large numbers were offered to me, but at the time they did not 

 appear to possess any particular significance. It was only in tumbling out 

 a large number of discs from the box, in which they had long been kept, 

 that I recognised this type of the illustrations of Dr. Schliemann's book, 

 just consulted with reference to the Discs A and B mentioned above. The 

 specimens I have with me do not bear any marks of ornamentation. 

 Further search may perhaps bring better specimens to light. (Since this 

 was written some oiMuuncnied ones have been found.) 



