Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . corn or wine, for there are in it nine enormous earthen jars (yrlOoi) ofvarious forms, about 5| ft. high and 4J ft. across, their mouths being from .1873.] THE COLOSSAL JARS. 33 29h to 35^ in. Each of them has four handles, 3J in. broad, andthe clay of which they are made is as much as 2\ in. thick. Upon the. No. 8. The Magazine, with its Colos<al Jars, in the depths of the Temple of
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . corn or wine, for there are in it nine enormous earthen jars (yrlOoi) ofvarious forms, about 5| ft. high and 4J ft. across, their mouths being from .1873.] THE COLOSSAL JARS. 33 29h to 35^ in. Each of them has four handles, 3J in. broad, andthe clay of which they are made is as much as 2\ in. thick. Upon the. No. 8. The Magazine, with its Colos<al Jars, in the depths of the Temple of Athene; as itappeared in June 1873. * south side of the jars I found a wall of fortification, 26 ft. long and 10 , built of sun-dried bricks, which, though thoroughly baked in theconflagration, were exceedingly fragile. In the middle of March I also commenced a large excavation closeto my wooden house and to the west of the Great I foundnear the surface the ruins of a large house of the Greek period, whichextended to a depth of 6\ ft. It must have belonged to a great man,perhaps a high priest, for the floors of the rooms were made of large slabsof red stone excellently polished. Below this Greek house I found, asusual, a layer of debris with but few stones ; then a number of house-walls composed of small stones joined together with earth; and beneaththese again immense masses of burnt and partly-vitrified bricks. At last,at the depth of 30 ft. below the surface, I brought to light a street 17
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