The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric TimesWilson, Thomas
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The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times
Wilson, Thomas
Industries, Primitive; Swastikas; Symbolism
We find among the successors of the burnt city the same triangular
idols; the same primitive bronze battle-axes; the same terra-cotta
vases, with or without tripod feet; the same double-handled goblets
([Greek: sepa amphikupella]); the same battle-axes of jade, porphyry,
and diorite; the same rude stone hammers, and saddle querns of
trachyte. * * * The number of rude stone hammers and polished stone
axes are fully thrice as large as in the third city, while the masses
of shells and cockles accumulated in the débris of the houses are so
stupendous that they baffle all description. The pottery is coarser
and of a ruder fabric than in the third city. * * * There were also
found in the fourth city many needles of bone for female handiwork,
boar tusks, spit rests of mica schist, whetstones of slate, porphyry,
etc., of the usual form, hundreds of small silex saws, and some knives
of obsidian. Stone whorls, which are so abundant at Mycenæ, are but
rarely found here; all of those which occur are, according to Mr.
Davis, of steatite. On the other hand, terra-cotta whorls, with or
without incised ornamentation, are found by thousands; their forms
hardly vary from those in the third (the burnt) city, and the same may
be generally said of their incised ornamentation. * * * The same
representation of specimens of whorls are given as in the third city,
and the same observations apply.
[Illustration: Fig. 55. CONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL WITH THREE OGEE SWASTIKAS.
Depth 13-1/2 feet. Schliemann, "Ilios," fig. 1850.]
[Illustration: Fig. 56. CONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL WITH FOUR SWASTIKAS OF
VARIOUS KINDS. Depth 13-1/2 feet. Schliemann, "Ilios," fig. 1879.]
[Illustration: Fig. 57. CONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL WITH SWASTIKAS. Depth.
13-1/3 feet. Schliemann, "Ilios," fig. 1894.]
[Illustration: Fig. 58. BICONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL WITH ONE SWASTIKA. Depth,
13-1/2 feet. Schliemann, "Ilios," fig. 1983.]
[Illustration: Fig. 59. BICONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL WITH THREE OGEE SWASTIKAS.
Depth, 13-1/2 feet. Schliemann, "Ilios," fig. 1990.]
[Illustration: Fig. 60. BICONICAL SPINDLE-WHORL WITH TWO SWASTIKAS. Depth,
16-1/2 feet. Schliemann, "Ilios," fig. 1863.]
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