[110] See the Plate of Idols, p. 36.
[111] See Cut, No. 13, p. 35.
[112] Dr. Schliemann is here speaking of the “cups” which he afterwards decided to be covers, which of course represent only the head, the body being on the vase.—[Ed.]
[113] See Cut, No. 54, p. 86.
[114] Ithaque, le Péloponnèse et Troie. Dr. Schliemann’s subsequent change of opinion on this point is explained in subsequent chapters, and in the Introduction.
[115] The various types of whorls spoken of here and throughout the work are delineated in the lithographic Plates at the end of the volume, and are described in the [List of Illustrations].
[116] These “rising suns” are the arcs with their ends resting on the circumference of the whorl, as in Nos. 321-28, and many others on the Plates. M. Burnouf describes them as “stations of the sun.”
[117] For the type of whorls with “sôma-trees” or “trees of life” (four, or more, or fewer), see Nos. 398, 400, 401, 404, &c. In No. 410 the four trees form a cross.
[118] [Plate LII]., No. 498.
[119] This falcon seems to be represented by rude two-legged figures on some of the whorls:—e. g. on [Plate XLV]., No. 468 (comp. p. 135).