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Chap. II.]
WHORLS AS VOTIVE OFFERINGS.
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of bowls with the same system of horizontal tubular holes, from 0.03 m. to 0.07 m. long in the brim, found in the grottoes of Farneto, Pragatto, and Rastellino, in the province of Bologna, all of which are of the Stone Age. Fragments of bowls, with precisely the same system, found in the terramare of the Emilia, may also be seen in the Museum of Bologna, as well as in the Museo Nazionale in the Collegio Romano at Rome. I also found similar bowl fragments in my excavations at Orchomenos,[1] as well as in those I made with Mr. Frank Calvert at Hanaï Tepeh.[2]

On this occasion I may mention, concerning the curious goblet of the first city represented in Ilios, p. 224, No. 51, that the Prehistoric Museum at Madrid contains four cups of the same form, but without handles, which were found in caverns in Andalusia, inhabited in the Stone Period; further, that three goblets of the same form, one with one handle, the others with two, found in Rhodes, are in the Museum of the Louvre. A goblet of a similar form, recently found in the lowest layers of débris in the Acropolis of Athens, is in the Acropolis Museum.

Of terra-cotta whorls, both plain and with an incised ornamentation, a very large number, not less than 4000, were again found in the five prehistoric settlements in this year's excavations. My opinion, that all the many thousands of whorls which I gathered here in the course of years, have served as votive offerings, is strenuously supported by Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac,[3] who found a great many similar ones at Sankisa, in Behar, and other Buddhist ruins in the North-west Provinces of India. On many of these Indian whorls the incised ornamentation, in which he

  1. ↑ See Orchomenos, Leipzig, 1881, p. 41, fig. 4.
  2. ↑ See Ilios, p. 710, fig. 1543–1545.
  3. ↑ Memorandum on Clay Discs called Spindle Whorls, and Votive Seals, found at Sankisa, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XLIX. part i. 1880.
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