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 . nto a kind of spongy glass-metal. As I havementioned in Ilios (p. 313), for a long distance on thenorth side the floors resembled a sort of vitrified sheet,which was onlv interrupted by the house-walls. I found in the debris of the second city very large massesof green slates, which must once have served for pavingthe house jfioors, and perhaps also the streets between thehouses; but strange to
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 . nto a kind of spongy glass-metal. As I havementioned in Ilios (p. 313), for a long distance on thenorth side the floors resembled a sort of vitrified sheet,which was onlv interrupted by the house-walls. I found in the debris of the second city very large massesof green slates, which must once have served for pavingthe house jfioors, and perhaps also the streets between thehouses; but strange to say, the above-mentioned fioor, inthe great edifice i- x in the western part of the citadel, is theonly one which is still covered with them, and it was onlyin a chamber of the edifice C that I found a few of themstill in situ. The plates of slate were foimd almost exclu-sively in small j^ieces, owing to the intense must have prevailed in the catastrophe t)f the second Chap. 111.] OBJECTS FOUND IN FIRST TEMPLE. 91 citv. By this he:it thethin plates have nearly all beenburst to pieces, and have partly assumed a red passing now to the description of the objects of. No. 28.—Copper Nail of a quadrangular shape with a disk-lilcehead, which has been cast independently of the nail and merely-fixed on it. Size 2:3; depth 8som. human industry discovered in the second city, I beginwith those found in the temple A. With the carbonized beams was found a large number 92 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. of liuge copper nails, some of which have the enormousweight of 1190 grammes (above 2^ lbs. avoirdupois).They were doubtless used m the wooden structures ofthe terrace and the parastadcs. As may be seen from theengraving No. 28, they are quadrangular, run out at oneend into a jjoint, and have at the other end a disk-likehead, which has been cast independently of the nail andhas merely been fixed on it. Some of these largest nails were
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