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 . the third. The ground plan of this gate, withall the alterations, is given in the sketch No, 90, Itssurface lav, at the time of the third settlement, about i 30metre higher than it had been at the time of the catastropheof the second city. Within the gate stood the sacrificialaltar represented in Ilios under No. 6, p. 31. Through thegate runs a large channel or gutter of a very primitivemasonry,
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 . the third. The ground plan of this gate, withall the alterations, is given in the sketch No, 90, Itssurface lav, at the time of the third settlement, about i 30metre higher than it had been at the time of the catastropheof the second city. Within the gate stood the sacrificialaltar represented in Ilios under No. 6, p. 31. Through thegate runs a large channel or gutter of a very primitivemasonry, much like the water conduit, mentioned above(p. 64) in the mysterious cavern, and the cyclopean water-conduits discovered by me at Tiryns and Mycenae.* It * See Mycc7iac, pp. 9, 80. 144. §!•] THE SOUTH-EASTERN GATE 179 is formed of rude iinwroiight slabs of limestone joinedwithout cement, and covered with similar stones. Thischannel cannot have served for carrying off the blood ofthe sacrificed animals, as I at first supposed {Ilios, p. 30) ;it is too deep for that; besides, it extends in a north-westerlydirection into the city, and therefore probably served forcarrving off the Xo. QO.—Ground Plan of the South-eastern Gate, marked OX on Plan VII. Scale i: gate had likewise two portals [a, a). Like the south-western gate, this south-eastern gate alsomust have had on the substructions {5, b in the engravingNo. 90 and lu in Plan VII.) long and high lateral walls ofbricks, and must have been crowned with a tower of thesame material, for otherwise we should be at a loss toaccount for the masses of fallen baked or burnt bricksand debris of bricks, 3 metres deep, in w^hich we found thesacrificial altar and its surroundings imbedded. But Imay say of these lateral walls the same that I said of thoseof the south-western gate, namely, that it is impossible to l8o THIRD PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT. [Chap. IV. say now what part, if any, of these walls belongs to these
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