Fig. 100.
BICONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL.
Four animals are shown similar to those found
associated with the Swastika. Fourth city.
Depth, 19.6 feet. Schliemann, “Ilios,” fig. 1867.
Fig. 101.
SPINDLE-WHORL WITH FIGURE-8 SWASTIKA (?)
AND SIX “BURNING ALTARS.”
Fourth city. Depth, 19.6 feet.
Schliemann, “Ilios,” fig. 1838.
Dr. Schliemann found, during his excavations on the hill of Hissarlik, no less than 1,800 spindle-whorls. A few were from the first and second cities; they were of somewhat peculiar form (figs. [72] and [74]), but the greatest number were from the third city, thence upward in decreasing numbers. The Swastika pure and simple was found on 55 specimens, while its related or suggested forms were on 420 (pp. [809], [819]). Many of the other whorls were decorated with almost every imaginable form of dot, dash, circle, star, lozenge, zigzag, with many indefinite and undescribable forms. In presenting the claims of the Swastika as an intentional sign, with intentional, though perhaps different, meanings, it might be unsatisfactory to the student to omit descriptions of these associated decorative forms. This description is impossible in words; therefore the author has deemed it wiser to insert figures of these decorations as they appeared on the spindle-whorls found at Troy, and associated with those heretofore given with the Swastika. It is not decided, however, that these have any relation to the Swastika, or that they had any connection with its manufacture or existence, either by evolution or otherwise, but they are here inserted to the end that the student and reader may take due account of the association and make such comparison as will satisfy him. ([Figs. 102 to 124.])
Figs. 102-113. TROJAN SPINDLE-WHORLS. Schliemann, “Ilios.”