Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . to 6| ft. high andfrom 2 to 4 ft. wide, as well as numerous drums of Corinthian columns. and other sculptured blocks of marble. All these marbles must havebelonged to the Hellenic buildings, the southern wall of which I laid 1873.] GREEK TEMPLE OF ATHENft 29 bare to a distance of 285\ At first this wall is composed of smallstones joined with cement, and it rests upon well-hewn blocks of l
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . to 6| ft. high andfrom 2 to 4 ft. wide, as well as numerous drums of Corinthian columns. and other sculptured blocks of marble. All these marbles must havebelonged to the Hellenic buildings, the southern wall of which I laid 1873.] GREEK TEMPLE OF ATHENft 29 bare to a distance of 285\ At first this wall is composed of smallstones joined with cement, and it rests upon well-hewn blocks of lime-stone ; further on it consists solely of this latter masonry. The directionof the wall, and hence of the whole building, is east south-east. Three inscriptions, which I found among its ruins,11 and one of whichstates that it was set up in the Upov—that is to say, in the temple—leave no doubt that this was the temple of the Ilian Athene, the ttoXl-oO^o? 6ed, for it is only this sanctuary that could have been calledsimply to lepov on account of its size and importance, which surpassedthat of all the other temples of Novum Ilium.
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