Figs. 114-124. TROJAN SPINDLE-WHORLS. Schliemann, “Ilios.”
Leaden idol of Hissarlik.—Dr. Schliemann, in his explorations on the hill of Hissarlik, at a depth of 23 feet, in the third, the burnt city, found a metal idol ([fig. 125]), which was determined on an analysis to be lead.[150] It was submitted to Professor Sayce who made the following report:[151]
It is the Artemis Nana of Chaldea, who became the chief deity of Carchemish, the Hittite capital, and passed through Asia Minor to the shores and islands of the Ægean Sea. Characteristic figures of the goddess have been discovered at Mycenæ as well as in Cyprus.
Fig. 125.
LEADEN IDOL OF
ARTEMIS NANA
OF CHALDEA,
WITH SWASTIKA.[153]
Third city. Depth, 23 feet.
Schliemann, “Ilios,” fig.
126. 1⅓ natural size.
In “Troja” Professor Sayce says:
Precisely the same figure, with ringlets on either side of the head, but with a different ornament (dots instead of Swastika) sculptured on a piece of serpentine was recently found in Mæonia, and published by M. Salmon Reinach in Revue Archæologique. By the side of the goddess stands the Babylonian Bel, and among the Babylonian symbols that surround them is the representation of one of the terra-cotta whorls, of which Dr. Schliemann found such multitudes at Troy.
The chief interest to us of Dr. Schliemann’s description of the idol lies in the last paragraph:[152]