. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. FlG. Gkouxu Plan ok VI F ness, for the east wdl (b e) formed the retainingwall of the high terrace where the building stood,and consequently it is built to a thickness of m.,while the other walls measure only m. The out-side of this retaining Avail shows two advancing an-gles, somewhat greater than those in the retainingwall of VI M and in the outer wall of the city. Thereare two doors—the larger (i), m. broad in thesouth wall; the sraallcr (li), m. Tiroad in the Dorpfeld
. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. FlG. Gkouxu Plan ok VI F ness, for the east wdl (b e) formed the retainingwall of the high terrace where the building stood,and consequently it is built to a thickness of m.,while the other walls measure only m. The out-side of this retaining Avail shows two advancing an-gles, somewhat greater than those in the retainingwall of VI M and in the outer wall of the city. Thereare two doors—the larger (i), m. broad in thesouth wall; the sraallcr (li), m. Tiroad in the Dorpfeld, Troja nnd Ilion,Troja, 1893, pp. 28-29. pp. 1C3-1G3. Cf. , 78 MYCENAEAN TROT west wall. The former (i) was walled up ia latertimes. The whole structure shows a style of mason-ry inferior to that of the other buildings of the VICity. Its poorly wrought stones are in striking con-trast to the finely polished blocks of the adjacentbuilding, VI E. A horizontal layer of earth, whichappears between the layers of stone at the outside of. Fig. 28. Guoukd Plan of YI B e f, indicates that a horizontal wooden beam was oncebuilt into the masonry. A similar architectural de-vice is seen in the court wall of the palace of Mycenae,as well as in some of the buildings of the II VI The stately building VI E has a form(fig. 28) similar to the one which we have just dis-cussed, and, like it, was probably a dwelling house. iDCirpfeld, Troja und Ilion, pp. 164-1G9. Of. Durpfeld,Troja, 1893, pp. 27-28. THE MYCENAEAN CITY The large inner room is ru. broad. The length ofthe east wall is , and that of the west walllO excellent masonry (seen in fig. 29) consists of pol-ished stones, closely joined together, forming a markedcontrast to that of the Cyclopean walls of Tiryns andMycenae, and indicating that the structure must havebeen erected during the later period of the Mycenae-an City. There is a trace of a door (i) in the cornerof the southwest wall, but it
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