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on the outside and black on the inside; or they are black on both sides; or they are black on the outside and yellow on the inside; or they have on the outside a light-red colour with a black rim, and are black on the inside; or they have on the outside black bands on a light-yellow or red ground, and inside the natural clay colour; or they have on the outside dark-red bands on a light-red ground, and are inside of a uniform dark-red; or they have on the outside a very rude meaningless lustrous black ornamentation on a light-yellow or red ground, and are monochrome black on the inside. There was further found a whorl of that very slightly baked greyish pottery, already mentioned, which somewhat resembles the Lydian pottery described in the tenth chapter of Ilios; it is ornamented with four incised wedges, which form a cross round the perforation. All this pottery was found scattered about in the débris in sinking the shaft. There is also a fragment of a varnished monochrome red vase, which certainly cannot claim a higher antiquity than the Macedonian period; but, as this was found only a few inches below the surface, it probably comes from sacrifices made here in later times, and cannot be taken into account.

The tumulus described in the Odyssey, XXIV. 80–84,^[1] as the tomb of Achilles, situated on the jutting headland on the shore of the Hellespont, can be no other than this mound; and there can be no doubt that the poet had this one also in view, when he makes Achilles order the tumulus of Patroclus to be erected: "I do not, however, advise you to make the tomb too high, but as is becoming; at a future time you may pile it up broad and high, you Achaeans who survive me and remain in the ships with many oars."^[2]