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Thus we get a total depth of 6.50 m. from the top to the bottom of the tumulus, which differs by not less than 3.20 m. from the depth of 9.70 m. which the Jew pretended to have reached,^[1] though in reality he appears to have excavated to a depth of only one mètre. All the Jew's other statements are likewise mere fictions: his description of the different layers of earth of which the tumulus consists is false; and equally false are his assertions that he found a large quantity of charcoal, human bones, Image missingNo. 132.—Arrowhead of bronze or copper without barbs (γλωχίνες). Found in the tumulus of Achilles, Size 3:4; depth about 6 m. and a mass of fragments of pottery similar to the Etruscan, a bronze figure seated in a chariot with horses, or even a quadrangular cavity consisting of masonry; for the tumulus contains nothing of all that, nor ever did contain it. As in all the tumuli of the Troad explored by me in 1873 and 1879, I found in the tumulus of Achilles no trace of bones, ashes, or charcoal—in fact no trace of a burial. Of bronze or copper I found, at a depth of about six mètres, a curious arrowhead without barbs (γλωχίνες), in which are still preserved the heads of the little pins by which it was fastened to the shaft; I represent it here under No. 132. According to Dr. L. Stern^[2] this form of arrow-head is the most ancient, and occurs already in Egypt in the time of the XIIth dynasty. A perfectly similar arrow-head was found by Professor Virchow in his excavations in the prehistoric cemetery of Upper Koban.^[3] Similar ones were also found at Olympia, as well as on the battlefield of Plataeae and in tombs in Bohemia, as e.g. at