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Title: 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
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902 Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919 Brugsch, Heinrich, 1827-1894 Ascherson, Paul, 1834-1913 Postolakas, Achilles Burnouf, Emile, 1821-1907 Calvert, Frank Dufield, Alexander James, 1821-90
Subjects: Archaeology
Publisher: New York: Harper & Bros
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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n Warrior, found beside his Skeleton. (Half actual size. Depth, 23 ft.) this latter was also fractured on its way to London. Professor Yirchow,who kindly recomposed both skulls and made the accompanying excellentgeometrical drawings of them (Nos. 969-972 and Nos. 973-976), has sentme the following interesting note. 508 THE THIED, THE BURNT CITY. (Chap. VII. Dimensions of the Two Skulls (in Millimetres). Nos. 969-972. Nos. 973-976. Length of the skull ... , Greatest breadth of the skull Auricular height Breadth of the frontal bone at its base Height of the face Breadth „ „ of lower jaw Orbit, height „ breadth Nose, height „ breadth Height of the alveolar apophysis of the upper jawHorizontal circumference of the skull 193 132-5?11090104-5 88? 47?2315521 191141110 9910689773038492616537 From which the following indices may further be calculated: Nos. 969-972. Nos. 973-976. Longitudinal index Auricular index Nasal index Orbital index 68-656-948-9 738 57-553-078-9 No. 969. No. 970.
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Nos. 969-972. Professor Virchows geometrical drawing of the skull of one of the two warriors found, with helmetson their heads and a lance-head, in the room of a house of the burnt city. (Depth, about 26 ft.) The defi-ciencies replaced by gypsum are indicated by oblique lines. Chap. VII.) SKULLS OF TROJAN WARRIORS. 509 The skull Nos. 969-972 is evidently that of a male; judging fromthe good preservation of the teeth-crowns, it belongs to a young man,who, however, has had time to wear deeply down the edges of the incisors.The forehead is broad; the glabella moderately deepened. The verticalcurve (curve of the vertex) is long and well shaped, with a rapid fallingoff of the occiput, which for the rest is rounded; lambdoidal suture ser-rated. The eyebrow projections are strongly developed; maxillary bonesquite orthognathous; the chin projecting, broad and angular. The middleof the lower jawbone above the chin is inflected; the upper alveolar pro-cess very low. The upper part of the nose i

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