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THE FIRST SETTLEMENT.
[Chap. II.

is encircled by five concave furrows deeply impressed; the rim is slightly bent over; the long handle, but slightly curved, is very curious; the large perforation we see in it probably indicates the use of the vessel, for it seems to have been let down with a string into the well to draw up water; the hole must also have served to suspend it on a nail. I never found here a similar vessel, nor am I aware that this form has ever occurred elsewhere.

No. 9 is a very pretty lustrous black vase, with a convex foot and an excrescence on either side perpendicularly perforated for suspension. To the list of the few places given on pp. 222, 223 in Ilios, where vases with a similar contrivance

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No. 8.—Lustrous black Cup, with horizontal flutings, hollow foot, and vertical perforated handle. (Size: 1:4. Depth, about 14 m.)
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No. 9—Lustrous black Vessel, with convex foot, and vertically perforated excrescences on the sides. Size 1:4. Depth, 14 m.)

may be seen, I must add the Prehistoric Museum of Madrid, which contains five fragments of hand-made vases found in caverns of the stone age in Andalusia, having on each side a tubular hole for suspension. Another vase-fragment with vertical perforations for suspension, likewise found in a cavern in Andalusia, is in the Museum at Cassel. The same system may be seen on several fragments of hand-made vases found by me in my excavations at

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