Fig. 87.
SPHERICAL SPINDLE-WHORL, FLATTENED.
Two Swastikas combined with segments and dots.
Schliemann, “Ilios,” fig. 1988.
Fig. 88.
SECTIONS OF TERRA-COTTA SPHERE.[149]
Central circles with extended arms turning to the left,
ogee and zigzag. Schliemann, “Ilios,” fig. 1993.
Fig. 89.
SPHERICAL SPINDLE-WHORL.
Large central dot with twelve arms, similar in form to
the ogee Swastika. Schliemann, “Ilios,” fig. 1946.
It is not contended that these are necessarily evolutions of the Swastika. We will see farther on many lines and forms of decoration by incised lines on these Trojan whorls, which may have had no relation to the Swastika, but are inserted here because persons rich in theories and brilliant in imagination have declared that they could see a resemblance, a relation, in this or some other decoration. As objects belonging to the same culture, from the same locality, and intimately associated with unmistakable Swastikas, they were part of the res gestæ, and as such entitled to admission as evidence in the case. The effect of their evidence is a legitimate subject for discussion and argument. To refuse these figures admission would be to decide the case against this contention without giving the opposing party an opportunity to see the evidence or to be heard in argument. Therefore the objects are inserted.