[42] We omit here the Author’s further enumeration of the objects composing the “King’s Treasure,” as they are fully described on the occasion of their wonderful discovery ([Chapter XXIII].). Meanwhile the Plate opposite gives a general view of the whole.—[Ed.]
[43] Engraved among the lithographic plates at the end of the volume, Pl. LI., No. 496. Since the publication of Dr. Schliemann’s work, many of these Trojan inscriptions have been more certainly determined to be real inscriptions in the Cyprian syllabic character, through the researches of Dr. Martin Haug and Professor Gomperz of Vienna. (See the Appendix.)—[Ed.]
[44] Dr. Schliemann has since pronounced these crown-shaped vessels to be covers of vases; though they may, he thinks, have been used for cups as well. One is seen placed on the splendid vase on p. 48.—{Ed}
[45] See [Plan III]., p. 306.
[46] Iliad, V. 640-642, where Tlepolemus boasts of his ancestor Hercules—
Ὅς ποτε δεῦρ’ ἐλθὼν ἕνεχ’ ἵππων Λαομέδοντος,
Ἓξ οἴῃς σὺν νηυσὶ καὶ ἀνδράσι παυροτέροισιν,
Ἰλίου ἐξαλάπαξε πόλιν, χήρωσε δ’ ἀγυιάς.
“With but six ships, and with a scanty band,
The horses by Laomedon withheld
Avenging, he o’erthrew this city, Troy,
And made her streets a desert.”
[47] This most important key to the archæological evidence collected by Dr. Schliemann has been preserved in the present translation. The depths are given in meters for the reasons stated in the Preface.
[48] These objects resemble those from other strata, engraved in [Chapter IV]. and subsequently.
[49] [Chapter XVI]., p. 239; comp. Chap. XV., p. 230, XVII., p. 250, XIX., p. 272.
[50] It will be seen, however, from the analysis of M. Damour, that traces of iron (probably in the state of an ore) are found in one of the sling-bullets discovered by Dr. Schliemann.—[Ed.]