. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. ing, which faced the southwest, must haveconsisted of an antechanil)er and a large hall, 11 and 6 m. broad. Behind this was a small apart-ment that might have been used for a rear room,were it not for the fact that the northeast wall is closed,thus affording no passageway. In this room, as wellas in the hall, several pithoi have been masonry consists of small, poorly wrought stones,and resembles that of the East Wall of the city. Southeast of VIG a portion of wall belon
. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. ing, which faced the southwest, must haveconsisted of an antechanil)er and a large hall, 11 and 6 m. broad. Behind this was a small apart-ment that might have been used for a rear room,were it not for the fact that the northeast wall is closed,thus affording no passageway. In this room, as wellas in the hall, several pithoi have been masonry consists of small, poorly wrought stones,and resembles that of the East Wall of the city. Southeast of VIG a portion of wall belonging to theVI Stratum has been found lying close to the citadelwall, but we have no indication of the purpose whichit served. iDOrpfekl, Troja unci Ilion, pp. 1G1-1G3. Cf. Dorpfeld,Troja, 1893, p. 29. 2 Cf. Schliemann, Ilios, p. 34, THE MYCENAEAN CITY 77 26. VI The ground plan of the building VI F(fig. 27), which is probalily a dwelling house, formsa trapezoid. Its single hall is about m. inbreadth. Its west side is m. long, its eastside 12 m. long. The walls are not of eqvial thick-. FlG. Gkouxu Plan ok VI F ness, for the east wdl (b e) formed the retainingwall of the high terrace where the building stood,and consequently it is built to a thickness of m.,while the other walls measure only m. The out-side of this retaining Avail shows two advancing an-gles, somewhat greater than those in the retainingwall of VI M and in the outer wall of the city. Thereare two doors—the larger (i), m. broad in thesouth wall; the sraallcr (li), m. Tiroad in the Dorpfeld, Troja nnd Ilion,Troja, 1893, pp. 28-29. pp. 1C3-1G3. Cf. , 78 MYCENAEAN TROT west wall. The former (i) was walled up ia latertimes. The whole structure shows a style of mason-ry inferior to that of the other buildings of the VICity. Its poorly wrought stones are in striking con-trast to the finely polished blocks of the adjacentbuilding, VI E. A horizontal layer of earth, whichappea
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