. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. cement, so closely that the intersticesare hardly visible; others are constructed of stones,only the outside of which is polished, and the inter-stices filled with rubble and clay; again, in severalplaces, the stones are unwrought, as in the so-calledCyclopean masonry. iDGrpfeld, Troja und Ilion, pp. 107-108, 1903. Cf. Dorp-feld, Mitth. pp. 380-394, 1894; DOrpfeld, Troja, 1893;Scliliemann, Bericht fiber die Ansgrabungen in Troja im Jalire1890; Schuchhardt-Sellers, Schliemanns Excavatio
. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. cement, so closely that the intersticesare hardly visible; others are constructed of stones,only the outside of which is polished, and the inter-stices filled with rubble and clay; again, in severalplaces, the stones are unwrought, as in the so-calledCyclopean masonry. iDGrpfeld, Troja und Ilion, pp. 107-108, 1903. Cf. Dorp-feld, Mitth. pp. 380-394, 1894; DOrpfeld, Troja, 1893;Scliliemann, Bericht fiber die Ansgrabungen in Troja im Jalire1890; Schuchhardt-Sellers, Schliemanns Excavations, Appen-dix I, 1891. 2Dorpfeld, Troja und Ilion, pp. 109-111. Cf. Dorpfeld,Troja, 1893, pp. 30-36; Heinricli, Troja bei Homer und in derWirklichkeit, p. ; Tsountas and Manatt, The MycenaeanAge, Appendix A, p. 371, 1897. (45) 46 MYCENAEAN TEOY Such differences in tlie style of stone work are rec-ognized in tig. 9 and fig. 10. In the former we see aprojecting angle of the building VI M, and observehow well-wrought and how closely fitted are thestones at the corner, while in the lower part of the. Fig. 9. Retaining Wall of VI Mwall the blocks become more irregular and the inter-stices are filled with ru])ble. In the latter figurethere is seen a portion of the Tower VI h projectingfrom the East Citadel Wall. It will be noted thatthe city wall (c) shows on its scarped surface irregularstones, in contrast to which the blocks of the towerwall appear well-wrought and with such regular inter-stices that they remind us of the fine Hellenic isodo-mous masonry. 9. Building Material.^ Originally a brick upperwall, later replaced by stone, was built upon the solid iDurpfeld, Troja und llion, p. Ill, THE MYCENAEAN CITY 4:7 lower wall of the stronghold. Clay was employed inthe construction of the horizontal roofs of the building material for the timbers of the roof, forthe platform inside the towers, for the beams in someof the walls, for the pillars and doors, was pa
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