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 . which are still preserved. The archi-tecture of this gate proves with certainty that it had at lirstonly one portal (indicated by R C on No. 17 and by a darkcolouring on Plan VIL), formed by two projecting quad-rangular pillars {XX on Plan VII. and ground plan No. 17)to which the folding gates were fixed, and the foundationsof which still exist, being formed of unwrought stonescemented with clay
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 . which are still preserved. The archi-tecture of this gate proves with certainty that it had at lirstonly one portal (indicated by R C on No. 17 and by a darkcolouring on Plan VIL), formed by two projecting quad-rangular pillars {XX on Plan VII. and ground plan No. 17)to which the folding gates were fixed, and the foundationsof which still exist, being formed of unwrought stonescemented with clay. One of these piers stands out to a Aga?ntmnon, 1156-1159 (ed. Tauclinitz) : (o) yafjLOi, yd/jLOt IlapiSos oKedpioiv • iw ^KajxdvSpov Trdrpiov iroTLVrdre fiiv afj.\ eras aiSuas Td.\aiyiivvrdixav Tpocpais 68 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. disrance of o* 83 m., the otLer to a distance of 0*92 m.;both are i • 08 m. high, and 1*25 m. thick. The pillarswhich rested on these foundations, like the lateral wallsfrom which they projected, consisted of bricks, and servedwith them no doubt to support the roof, which seems tohave been crowned with an upper building of -^5/?^- ^r, y7-7~y-s.
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