[241] Iliad, XII. 445-462.
[242] Iliad, V. 302-310.
[243] Nor are even these now considered to be Byzantine; see [Chapter XXII]., p. 320, and Introduction, p. 30.—{Ed.}
[244] Homer’s Iliad, III. 362; IV. 459; VI. 9; XIII. 132; XVI. 216.
[245] Few coincidences have struck us more than the comparison of these helmet-crests with the frequent allusions in Homer, especially where “Hector of the dancing helmet-crest” (κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ), takes off the helmet that frightened his child (Iliad, VI. 469, foll.):—
Ταρβήσας χαλκόν τε ἰδὲ λόφον ἱππιοχαίτην
Δεινὸν ἀπ’ ἀκροτάτης κόρυθος νεύοντα νοήσας.
“Scared by the brazen helm and horse-hair plume,
That nodded, fearful, on the warrior’s crest.”
No such plumed helmets are found among the remains of “pre-historic” barbarous races. The skeletons, with the helmets and lances beside them, bear striking witness to a city taken by storm. In Homer, the Trojans under the command of “the crested Hector” are “valiant with lances” (μεμαότες ἐγχείῃσιν, Iliad, II. 816-818).—[Ed.]
[246] Compare [Plan II]. with the whole of the following description.
[247] See [Plate XI].B. Six of the jars are shown, and a seventh (broken) lies outside of the cut to the right. The two largest of all are out of view, on the other side of the wall of the magazine, but one of them is seen in the view on [Plate XI].A, in the left-hand bottom corner.
[248] See No. 29, p. 36.