Blovica and Korunka, and in Denmark.[1] I also found a fragment of an iron nail.
Of fragments of pottery large quantities were turned up, among which there are two or three pieces of the lustrous black hand-made pottery which is peculiar to the first and most ancient city of Hissarlik. But these potsherds must have lain on the ground when the tumulus was erected. There were also a number of fragments of but slightly baked lustrous grey or blackish wheel-made pottery, which, as before mentioned, occur also in the lowest layer of débris of the Greek Ilium, and which somewhat resemble the Lydian pottery described in the tenth chapter of Ilios. But by far the greater proportion is thoroughly baked wheel-made Hellenic pottery, of very different types and fabric. For example, many pieces of it are o, 008 mm. thick, and have on both sides or only on one side a glazed faint lustrous black colour; or this colour is only on the outer side and extends to about half the height of the vase, the other half having a light-yellow, the inner side a glazed dark-red colour; or the outside is dark lustrous black and the inside dark-brown; or the outside is covered all over with alternate glazed black and dark-red stripes, the inside being unpainted and having the natural light-yellow colour of the clay; or with the latter colour on the inside we see on the outside a glazed brown. For all these terra-cottas no archaeologist will hesitate to claim the ninth century B.C., or even a remoter age, for the appearance of this pottery is so archaic that, even if it had been found among the oldest Mycenean pottery, outside the royal tombs, it would not have appeared out of place there. But there is a quantity of much finer wheel-made Hellenic pottery, from 0,003 mm. to 0,006 mm. thick, which baffles the ingenuity of the most experienced
- ↑ J. J. A. Worsaae, Nordiske Oldsager, Table 38, No. 192.
