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cities of Troy, and Professor R. Virchow found a number of them, but all perforated, in his excavations in the Image missingNo. 14.—Huckle-bone (Astragalus). Half-size. Depth about 14 m. prehistoric necropolis of Upper Koban in the Caucasus.[1]

The huckle-bone given in Ilios, p. 262, No. 143, having been badly photographed, I represent here, under No. 14, another which was found in the débris of the first city.

It is impossible to ascertain from the ruins of this first settlement, whether it was peacefully abandoned by its inhabitants, or whether it was destroyed by the hand of an enemy, for there are no signs of either a partial or a general catastrophe.

  1. ↑ Rudolf Virchow, Das Gräberfeld von Koban im Lande der Osseten, Berlin, 1883. p. 21, Pl. XI. fig. 16.
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