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 . No. 137.—Wall of the first and oldest epoch. the lower city; but its northern part seems to be buriedin a far extending low elevation of the ground. The site ofthe lower city is indicated by a number of house-founda-tions, which peep out from the ground, and by verynumerous fragments of Hellenic pottery. The site iscrowned at its south and south-eastern extremity by asmall Acropolis, which is ab
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 . No. 137.—Wall of the first and oldest epoch. the lower city; but its northern part seems to be buriedin a far extending low elevation of the ground. The site ofthe lower city is indicated by a number of house-founda-tions, which peep out from the ground, and by verynumerous fragments of Hellenic pottery. The site iscrowned at its south and south-eastern extremity by asmall Acropolis, which is about 200 metres long by 100metres broad, and these also are approximately the dimen-sions of the lower town. In this citadel the late Austrian §1.] WALLS ON THE BALI DAGH. 265 Consul, J. G. von Ilahn, of Syra, made some excavationsin the spring of 1864, in company with the famous astro-nomer Dr. Julius Schmidt, and the architect Ernest Zillerof Athens. The altitude of the Acropolis is, according toDr. Julius Schmidts measurement, 142 m. They brought. No. 138.—Wall of the first and oldest epoch. to light in a number of places the walls, which clearly showtwo different epochs. Those of the first epoch are nearlyvertical, and are built of large blocks, more or less unwrought,filled in with smaller ones (see the engravings Nos. 137,
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