. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. er preelection for the corner (g) ofthe city wall on the east of the Gate VI T. Thetower walls are preserved only to a height of 2 we can get no conception of the upperstructure of either the gate or the tower. Two veryremarkable stones (m n in fig. 15), the purpose ofwhich is unknown, are situated liefore the front wallof the tower. There can be no doubt that they musthe assigned to the VI City. iDOrpteld, Tvoja mid llion, p. 139. Cf. Dorpfeld, , 1894; DOrpteld, Tro
. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. er preelection for the corner (g) ofthe city wall on the east of the Gate VI T. Thetower walls are preserved only to a height of 2 we can get no conception of the upperstructure of either the gate or the tower. Two veryremarkable stones (m n in fig. 15), the purpose ofwhich is unknown, are situated liefore the front wallof the tower. There can be no doubt that they musthe assigned to the VI City. iDOrpteld, Tvoja mid llion, p. 139. Cf. Dorpfeld, , 1894; DOrpteld, Troja, 1893, pp. 40-56; Heinrich, op. ; Tsoiintas and Manatt, o?.). cit. p. 371. 2Dui-pfcld, Troja und llion, pp. 133-135. 62 MYCENAEAN TROY 20. The East Tower.^ The Tower VI h, erected toflank the East Citadel Wall, lies midway between thetwo gates VI S and VI T. It juts out 8 m. beyond thecity wall and is over 11 m. in breadth. The towerforms a rectangle, of which the right half (d e f g infig. 18) extends beyond the East Wall, while the lefthalf (c a) rises higher, forming an upper story. Its. Fig. is. Gkound Plan of East Tower masonry resembles that of the South Citadel contrast between this style of building and thatof the East Wall can be noted in fig. 19, where wesee the scarped East Wall (a), the north (b) and thesouth (c) walls of the tower. It will be observed thatthe city wall (a) consists of smaller and more irregu-lar stones. On the right of the picture are to be seentwo pieces of the upper story of the tower, consist- ^Dorpfeld, Troja mid Ilion, pp. 139-144. THE MYCENAEAN CITY 63 ing of small but regular stones (d). The founda-tion is not so solid as that of the East Wall—a factwhich has caused the rents visible in the tower wallsat c. The thickness of the front wall (e f in fig. IS)is about 3 m., while that of the side walls (d e and g f)is about 2 m. The existence of numerous holes in
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