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THE FIRST SETTLEMENT.
[Chap. II.

recognises religious symbols, and generally a representation of the sun, is perfectly identical with that of the Trojan whorls.

Dr. W. Dörpfeld calls my attention to Richard Andree's Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche,[1] pp. 230232, fig. 8A and 8c; where it is stated that perforated whorls of terra-cotta or glass, which according to the engravings are of a form identical with that of the Trojan whorls, and with a similar ornamentation, are used as money on the Palau or Pelew Islands in the Pacific Ocean: "They are called there Audou, are regarded as a gift of the spirits, and are held to have been imported, no native being able to make them for want of the material. The quantity of them in circulation is never augmented. Some of those whorls are estimated at £750 sterling each."

The most ancient terra-cotta whorls found in Italy appear to be those of the Grotta del Diavolo, the antiquities of which, as I have stated above, are attributed to the first epoch of the reindeer:[2] they are unornamented, and are preserved in the Museum of Bologna. But they are of no rare occurrence in the Italian terramare, particularly in those of the Emilia, and, besides the places enumerated at pp. 229-231 of Ilios, I may mention the museums of Reggio and Corneto as containing a few ornamented with incisions: the museum of Parma also contains six ornamented ones, instead of only two, as stated in Ilios (p. 230).

Many terra-cotta whorls with an ornamentation similar to that of the Trojan whorls were gathered by the indefatigable Dr. Victor Gross in his excavations in the Swiss Lake habitations.[3]

Unornamented terra-cotta whorls occur also on the Esquiline at Rome, and in the Necropolis of Albano. Pro-

  1. ↑ Stuttgart, 1878.
  2. ↑ Avv. Ulderigo Botti, La Grotta del Diavolo, Bologna, 1871, p. 36, and Pl. IV. figs. 7 and 8.
  3. ↑ Victor Gross, Les Protohelvètes, Paris, 1883, Pl. XXVI.
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