stroke between them may be intended to indicate the beak; below the rim we see a line of curves; all these incisions are filled with chalk. To the right of the owl's-face are two or more incised signs. Professor Sayce thinks that the eyes may have been intended to ward off the effects of the evil eye, like the eyes painted on the boats of China, Malta, and Sicily. In Marocco small pieces are broken out of earthenware vessels for the same purpose.
It deserves particular attention that these incised ornamentations, Nos. 1 and 2, are on the inner side of the bowl rims, and that there is no ornamentation at all on the outside. The bowls to which Nos. 1 and 2 belong had on the outside two excrescences, each with two vertical tubular holes for suspension: one of these excrescences (belonging
to No. 2) is represented by the engraving No. 3; in order to photograph it, the reverse side of the fragment had to be put almost horizontally. We have illustrated this system of vases and bowls with two vertical tubular holes for suspension on each side by the engravings, pp. 214, 215, Nos. 23, 24, and 25 in Ilios. To the few places enumerated on p. 215 in Ilios, in which vases with a like contrivance may be found, I have to add the Museum of Parma, of which Mr. Giovanni Mariotti is the learned keeper. This museum contains a vase found in the terramare of the Emilia, which has on each side two vertical tubular holes for suspension.
The pottery of the first city in general, particularly these
