. 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. -made, are almost the rudest pottery found at Hissarlik. My friendMr. Joseph Hampel, keeper of the collection of coins and antiquities ofthe Hungarian National Museum in Buda-Pesth, informs me that plates 304 THE SECOND CITY ON THE SITE OF TKOY. [Chap. YI. of an identical shape and fabric have been found frequently at Magyaradin Hungary. But there also occur in all the strata of the second
. 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. -made, are almost the rudest pottery found at Hissarlik. My friendMr. Joseph Hampel, keeper of the collection of coins and antiquities ofthe Hungarian National Museum in Buda-Pesth, informs me that plates 304 THE SECOND CITY ON THE SITE OF TKOY. [Chap. YI. of an identical shape and fabric have been found frequently at Magyaradin Hungary. But there also occur in all the strata of the second city large quan-tities of fragments of hand-made lustrous-black deep plates; but, as hasbeen said, none of them has here a trace of those horizontal tubularholes for suspension in the rim which characterize the bowls and platesof the first city. I never found a trace of columns in any one of the five pre-historiccities of Hissarlik; hence it is certain that no columns of stone existedthere. Moreover, the word klwv never occurs in the Iliad, but only in theOdyssey, where columns of wood seem to be meant. In a house, at a depthof about 40 ft., I found a prettily-carved and very hard piece of limestone. Ko, 181. Block of Limestone, with a soclcet, in -which the pivot of a doormay have turned. (About 1 : 7 actual size. Depth, 40 ft.) in the form of a crescent, with a round hole 1 \ in. deep in the centre of it,and I suppose that it may have been used as the support for the fold of adoor; I represent it here under No. 181. CHAPTER YII. THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. I HAVE already shown that the site of the second city must havebeen deserted for a long time before it was again built upon. The newsettlers began, as M. Burnouf remarks, with levelling the debris uponthe ruins of the Second City: they filled the cavities and ravines withstones and other material, in many places only with ashes or clay, inter-laid with clay cakes (palettes). The great wall c on the view No. 144, which their
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