. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. No. 202. Marble Idol. (Actual size. Depth, about 28 ft.) above-mentioned two flat idols of bone. Of a similar shape to No. 195, butvery thick and somewhat bulged, is the idol No. 201 (referred to above),which is of trachyte, 9^ in. long and 6 in. broad. This is the secondlargest idol of trachyte found by me at Hissarlik, the usual material ofthe idols being white marble; those of mica-schi

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. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. No. 202. Marble Idol. (Actual size. Depth, about 28 ft.) above-mentioned two flat idols of bone. Of a similar shape to No. 195, butvery thick and somewhat bulged, is the idol No. 201 (referred to above), which is of trachyte, 9^ in. long and 6 in. broad. This is the secondlargest idol of trachyte found by me at Hissarlik, the usual material ofthe idols being white marble; those of mica-schist, bone, or terra-cotta, 334 THE THIED, THE BURNT CITY [Chap. VII, are comparatively rare. No. 202 is an idol of marble, on which the owl-figure is merely marked with black clay. No. 203 represents the fragment of a terra-cotta idol with the owl-head : the three strokes on the neck may probably be intended to indicatethe necklace: the hair is indicated on the back.. No. 203. Figure of Terra-cotta. (Actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) The accompanying figures (Nos. 204-211) represent eight marbleidols which certainly belong to the third or burnt city. Of these there No. 204. No. 205.