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 360 Primitive Greece: Mvcenian Akt. either with a single (Fig. 442) or a double handle (Fig. 443). The surface of one of these is covered with red dots, made by the potter in trying to remove the traces which the smoke of the kiln had left on it (Fig. 444).' We call attention to a style of vase of which countless examples were collected at Hissarlik, Schliemann alone having dug up more than two hundred.' The shape had a long existence, and is met as late as the /Eolian city. It resembles an old-fashioned Fni. 441.— Troy. Jug. Aclual siie. champagne glass. It is funnel-shaped, and tapers into a pointed or slightly convex base, upon which the glass could not stand. It only admits of being laid down horizontally ; the drinker, there- fore, was obliged to empty it first, holding both handles. These are long, curved, and fixed to the body some way below the lip and at the bottom (Fig. 445). Schliemann is correct in recogniz- ing in this goblet the SeVaj a.[ji<pfx6jriKKov, of which mention is so often made in the Epics. The vase, owing to its double handle, • All the vases of the second village, save two (Figs. 447, 448), were drawn by M. St. Elme Gautier, from pioces kindly sent me by Scbliemann. ^ ScHUtMANN, J/ios.