each of which has two vertical perforations; it was found, last year, in a tomb of the stone age near Tangermünde in the Altmark, and is preserved in the Nordische Abtheilung of the Royal Museum at Berlin; my attention was called to it by Mr. Ed. Krause of the Royal Ethnological Museum.
I call the reader's particular attention to the great resemblance of these Trojan vases to the kipes (Latin, cupa; French, hotte) which workmen use in the fields, and which have the very same kind of vertical tubular holes for suspension as the vases. But I must also mention the discovery, lately made by Dr. Philios on account of the Hellenic Archæological Society, of a certain number of most ancient terra-cotta vases and idols, at the base of the temple of Demeter at Eleusis, among which is a small vessel having on each side an excrescence perpendicularly perforated for suspension; whereas nearly all the other vases have on each side merely a hole for suspension in the foot and rim. All these vases have a painting of circular red bands, and they are so primitive that I do not hesitate to claim for them an age antecedent even to that of the royal tombs of Mycenae. The idols found with them are even still more primitive than the rudest ever found at Troy.
Fragments of hand-made bowls of terra-cotta, with two long horizontal tubular holes for suspension, such as are represented by Nos. 37–42, pp. 217, 218 in Ilios, were again found in large masses in the ruins of the first settlement; so that I have been able to recompose twenty-five of them. The Museum of Bologna contains fragments of bowls with a similar contrivance, found in the Grotta del Diavolo,[1] near Bologna, the antiquities of which are considered to belong to the first epoch of the reindeer.[2] The same museum contains also a large number of fragments
