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 . placeof the sun at the time of the equinox. But this spot,to which a second one corresponds on the other side ofthe ball, is in reality a hole, and regarding the ecliptic * The Ruins of Hissarlik : their relation to the Iliad, in theyoumal of Hellenic Studies, vol. iii. No. 2. October 1SS2, p. I30 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. Dr. l^orpteld rightly observes that, if this Hne were rea
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 . placeof the sun at the time of the equinox. But this spot,to which a second one corresponds on the other side ofthe ball, is in reality a hole, and regarding the ecliptic * The Ruins of Hissarlik : their relation to the Iliad, in theyoumal of Hellenic Studies, vol. iii. No. 2. October 1SS2, p. I30 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. Dr. l^orpteld rightly observes that, if this Hne were reallyintended to represent it, the arch would not be one-sided,but it would be indicated on borh sides of the equator. Ifthe balls were of the year 1500 , it might be said, thatat that time there may have lived in Japan, China, Babylon,and Egypt, some students who knew how to infer from thephenomena of the heavens the most important circles;but that such knowledge could at that time scarcely havepassed over to the Greeks, or even to Troy. In both the temples, A and B, much burnt grain wasfound. There was also found in the temple A somepottery, of w^hich I represent the most remarkable
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