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 . t;, which is open to the south-east, and of the naosproper {11). The latter is indicated in the sketch (No. 25),as 18 metres long, for close to the semicircle tc thereappeared to be the remains of a cross-wall belonging tothe edifice. But having again most carefully examined thepremises, my architects conclude with the highest proba-bility, from the arrangement of the holes in the lateralwall, t
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 . t;, which is open to the south-east, and of the naosproper {11). The latter is indicated in the sketch (No. 25),as 18 metres long, for close to the semicircle tc thereappeared to be the remains of a cross-wall belonging tothe edifice. But having again most carefully examined thepremises, my architects conclude with the highest proba-bility, from the arrangement of the holes in the lateralwall, that the length of the naos {n) must have extended 8o THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. to somewhat more than 20 m., and that, consequently, theproportion of its breadth to its length is exactly as 1 cannot be determined now whether there was still a thirdroom on the north-west side (in correspondence with thedivision of the temple B), because the western portion ofthe edifice has been cut away by the great northern pronaos, />, is lO 15 m. broad by 10*35 m. deep,and therefore just a square. The front ends of the lateralwalls (marked 0) were cased with vertical wooden jambs,. No. 27.—Parastades on the front ends of the lateral walls of temple A, consisting ofsix vertical wooden jambs.* for, as the wall-corners consisted of bricks, they might havebeen easily destroyed without this consolidation (see w^ood-cut, No. 27). These jambs, of which there were six at eachextremity, stood on well-wrought foundation-stones; theirlower parts are preserved, standing on the stones, but, ofcourse, in a calcined state. Each of these wooden jambsw^as about 0*25 m. square, so that the six jambs made upfully the wall thickness of i45m. We thus see in thistemple, that the parastades or antae, which are customaryin the Greek temples, and merely fulfilled in them an ? The dark horizontal bands between the courses of bricks in thisengraving No. 27 indicate the grooves which had o
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