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bottle, but without either feet or painted ornamentation, is in the British Museum.

There occur here besides, in the lowest layers of the Hellenic débris, two kinds of wheel-made pottery, which we cannot ascribe either to the Aeolic city or to a prehistoric settlement; of both types we found only fragments, all of which are derived from large vases. The one kind is thoroughly baked, has the red colour of the clay, and is either polished but superficially or not polished at all. The other kind is but very slightly baked, very coarse and heavy, but well polished and glazed, of grey or blackish-grey colour, and somewhat resembles the Lydian pottery described in the tenth chapter of Ilios; but it cannot be confounded with that, the less so as the fragments denote larger and more bulky examples, of shapes entirely different; besides they are without exception wheel-made, a thing which is of very rare occurrence in the Lydian pottery. For all these reasons I think that these two kinds of pottery are later than the Lydian pottery, and we shall see in the following pages that they most probably belong to the age from the ninth to the fifth century B.C.

The extreme rarity of glass in the débris of Ilium is very remarkable; and even the few fragments of it occasionally found seem to belong to a late Roman period. There was found, however, a round perforated object made of a green glass paste with regular white strokes, much like No. 551, p. 429, in Ilios. I may mention that very similar objects of green glass paste with white lines, found by M. Ernest Renan in his excavations in Phoenicia, are preserved in the Museé du Louvre.

Of incised gems I picked up five in my trenches, but none of them is of any great artistic value. Mr. Achilles Postolaccas attributes the three most remarkable of them