New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-03-02

CURIOUS VASE FROM TIE HOUSE OF PRlAM'
Tile owl-headed Minerva was frequently recovered,
especially upon another large vase in the royal
house Many Of the urns aud jars are made with
shallow channels passing around the middle, to hold
the cords by which they were suspended. OF artl-
cles of pure art there were only found hute made
of bone. and fragment of four-strDged Tyre OF
ivory. elegantly carved. The Aryan Symbols IN
Guiding the two forms of the Cross also constantly
occur among the relics Of Troy.
REMAINS OF THE THIRD, OR PosT-TROJAN PERIOD
The foundations of Troy, as we have seen, were
S feet below the present surface of the plateau of
Hissarik; but after the destruction of Priams city
tho site upon which the neXt-comerS built was 10
feet higher. Who these people were cannot yet be
asceraued but that they were also AryaDs seems TO
be certain from the recurrence of the same religious
symbols. which can hardly have been used for
merely decorative purpose, since the forms OF their
pottery quite different from those of the Irolans
They show the same degree of decadenCe in art in
comparison with the latter, as these manifest when
compared with their unknown predecessors. Their
architecture, moreover shows a great falling OH.
The houses constructed of small stones loosely
held together with rough pasterng of earth the
huge square blocks of Troy town" appear no longer
one or two walls of the period made of sundried
bricxA The debris is of dark-gTay color, mixed
with ashes and contains enormous quantities OF
shells and hsh-boDes. Pieces OF two Tyres were
found. q very few copper weapons, and great many
After rising to the depth Of 10 feet from the sur;
face there is another change, hardly Determined i
enough to make a new historical division The
signs of convulsiOn-dumb heroglyphcs OF lost his,
torioal events-which prevail throughout this third
stratum gradually become more marked ne great
increase of wood-ashes and the scarcity OF walls
even of the previous rude walls Of earth and small
stones-indicate the existence OF a CITY ou1it OF
wood. The signs of copper implements wholly
cease and all weapons and utensils are OF stone, Dut
of quite inferior workmanship. The vases and yes
sells of terra-cotta again show dlnerent 1asihoh
vet most singularly, they are covered with the
same ancient symbols There is more than one evil
dence OF general confaaation. If at that I'M
known perod-certainly before 700 B C.-lroy was
a wooden city, il must have been frequently de-
str0yed aud rebuilt. IL would be very dlthcult,
otherwise TO account for II feet OF rubbish IN four
or five centuries when the 1850 years OF the Greek
city only left six feet behind them Here is great
aud deeply interesting field of further research.
REMAINS OF THE FOURTH, OR GREEK PERIOD
The Greek settlement which Schliemann ,con-
lectures to have taken place about 100 B. c., has
left but few relics anterior to the age Of Lysmachus
900 Il. c.. But We know tHrOdotas, VII, 49, that
Xerxes. in 40 b. c. on his way TO Greece, came TO
the Troad that he landed at the mouth of the
Scamander visited the citadel Of Pram," and
sacrificed 900 beeves to the Trojan Minerva. We
also know Of Ethe Macedonian Aexander's nude
pranks at the mound of Achilles so that the age of
the Greek city may be tolerably well ascertained
without consulting its ruins. The bas-relief of
Apollo, which appears 10 have stood between two
triglyphs of "a small temple, has been pronounced
nv Prof Brunn of Munich one of the best living
authorities to belong TO a period between the md
die of the second aud the end Of the fourth century
before the Christian Ira.
Inasmuch as the Greek relics found at Troy belong
20 the historical age, / shall not describe them
further. Two curious condolences, however, must
DE mentioned before close this long, yet all too
bief report Several of the terra-cotta disks,
belonging TO the third p0st-I Trojan PERIOD prove
10 DO precisely identical IN shape, SIZE ana EN-
blematic decoration with those found IN the AXE
dwellings of Northern Italy. Both refer directly 10
India 10 the Sanskrit myths of Pydmantha, the far
earlier rigin of the Greek PrOmeheas. All ancient
vase. with a belt of curious characters around H.
which Schliemann at frst supposed to be merely
ornamental, but afterwaTd imagining they might
have some affinity with PhGnlcian, sent 10 NJ
Burnouf, Is probably the first evidence OF connec-
tion between the AEGEAN and China, NJ. BurnOuf
declares that the characters early Chinese, per-
fectly legbe, and constitute the sentence For the
earth causes % spring from ten abOIs ten thousand
pieces Of STUFF
there is of course a vast deal more ia DR. Schlie-
Insnns narrative volume, and hls atlas Of 26 photo
pTaDhs giving us four or five thousand pictures of
thA ex lf,Imed objects, than am able to mention
here have confined my labor 20 the narration, as
clear aud intelligbe as possible, of his achieve
IneDts. Inasmuch as his own story Is very broken
and fragmentary, my task has not been easy but |
fsei sure that the American reader VIII be glad TO
seooiye AZ much ~ have been able " give. u. 1.