Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . his head. Size aboyt i: 5. be partially restored, and the foundations of which are stillpreser\ ed ; namely a Roman gate which led up to the Acro-polis, and a portico erected in the Acropolis. The founda-tions of this gate, which consist of large square blocks, havebeen brought to light in the great south-eastern trench,* tothe south-east of the south-eastern gate, and are marked Lon Plan VII. i
Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . his head. Size aboyt i: 5. be partially restored, and the foundations of which are stillpreser\ ed ; namely a Roman gate which led up to the Acro-polis, and a portico erected in the Acropolis. The founda-tions of this gate, which consist of large square blocks, havebeen brought to light in the great south-eastern trench,* tothe south-east of the south-eastern gate, and are marked Lon Plan VII. in the present work, and on Plan I. in form a rectangle, 12 •50 m. long, 8 •50 m. broad,which is divided by an interior traverse into two parts.(See the engraving No. 117.) The numerous sculptured ? See Plan IV. in Ilios. 208 GREEK ANI^ ROMAN ILIUM. [Chap. V blocks of the upper edilice, which are lying about in closevicinity to the foundations, such as Doric columns, archi-traves, triglyphs, coronac, and Corinthian semi-columns. -a,55 ellujte 10,3S ?f I i I I 4,$S 2,-to ?^ 10,50 • =—.:^ No. ii7.^jround plan of the Roman Propylaeum in its present state. Scale i No. ii8.—Restored ground plan of the Roman Propylaeum. furnished the grounds on which it was possible to makethe accompanying sketches (Nos. 118-120) of the gate asrestored. On the southern outer side of the gate stood four §!•] THK ROMAN PROPYLAEUM. 20C; Doric columns; on the interior side there were probahlvtwo similar columns between two parasiadcs. The portalproper was formed by three doors in the interior traverse,which were encompassed with Corinthian lateral walls of the gate joined, on the east and west,the walls of the sacred precincts of the temples
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