Fig. 50.
BICONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL WITH SWASTIKA.
Schliemann, “Ilios,” Fig. 1949.
| Fig. 51. BICONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL WITH SIX SWASTIKAS. Depth, 33 feet. Schliemann, “Ilios,” fig. 1859. | Fig. 52. BICONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL WITH TWO OGEE SWASTIKAS. Depth, 33 feet. Schliemann, “Ilios,” fig. 1876. |
| Fig. 53. SPINDLE-WHORL WITH FOUR SWASTIKAS. Depth, 33 feet. De Mortillet, “Musée Préhistorique,” fig. 1240. | Fig. 54. SPINDLE-WHORL WITH ONE SWASTIKA. Depth, 33 feet. De Mortillet, “Musée Préhistorique,” fig. 1241. |
The Fourth City (13.2 to 17.6 feet deep).—Schliemann says:[144]
We find among the successors of the burnt city the same triangular idols; the same primitive bronze battle-axes; the same terra-cotta vases, with or without tripod feet; the same double-handled goblets (σέπα ὰμφικύπελλα); the same battle-axes of jade, porphyry, and diorite; the same rude stone hammers, and saddle querns of trachyte. * * * The number of rude stone hammers and polished stone axes are fully thrice as large as in the third city, while the masses of shells and cockles accumulated in the débris of the houses are so stupendous that they baffle all description. The pottery is coarser and of a ruder fabric than in the third city. * * * There were also found in the fourth city many needles of bone for female handiwork, boar tusks, spit rests of mica schist, whetstones of slate, porphyry, etc., of the usual form, hundreds of small silex saws, and some knives of obsidian. Stone whorls, which are so abundant at Mycenæ, are but rarely found here; all of those which occur are, according to Mr. Davis, of steatite. On the other hand, terra-cotta whorls, with or without incised ornamentation, are found by thousands; their forms hardly vary from those in the third (the burnt) city, and the same may be generally said of their incised ornamentation. * * * The same representation of specimens of whorls are given as in the third city, and the same observations apply.