else than fragments of that sort of pottery, very slightly baked, wheel-made, exceedingly heavy, glazed, of a gray or blackish colour, which, as before mentioned, is frequent in the lowest layers of débris of the seventh city at Hissarlik, the Aeolic Ilium, and of which also many fragments were gathered in the tumulus of Achilles. The resemblance it bears to the Lydian pottery, described in Chapter X. of Ilios, is but very slight; the only points that both kinds of pottery have in common are, their very slight baking, their colour, and the large mass of mica they contain. For the rest, they are altogether different in form and in fabric; the Lydian pottery being, with rare exceptions, hand-made, whilst all the pottery of Priam's tumulus is wheel-made, and for this reason it is certainly of a later time than the former. As in the nine other "heroic tombs" explored by me, I found here no vestige of either bones or charcoal, and no trace of a burial. Like all the others, therefore, this is a mere cenotaph or memorial.
