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 . their very slight baking, theircolour, and the large mass of mica they contain. For therest, they are altogether different in form and in fabric; theLydian pottery being, with rare exce])tions, hand-made,whilst all the pottery of Priams tumulus is wheel-made, andfor this reason it is certainly of a later time than the in the nine other heroic tombs explored by me, Ifound here no vestig
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 . their very slight baking, theircolour, and the large mass of mica they contain. For therest, they are altogether different in form and in fabric; theLydian pottery being, with rare exce])tions, hand-made,whilst all the pottery of Priams tumulus is wheel-made, andfor this reason it is certainly of a later time than the in the nine other heroic tombs explored by me, Ifound here no vestige of either bones or charcoal, and notrace of a burial. Like all the others, therefore, this is amere cenotaph or memorial. CHAPTER VII. Other Explorations in the Troad. § /. TJie Ancient Town on the Bali DagJi,—I alsomost carefully explored with my architects the site of thesmall town situated on the mount just named, immediatelyto the south and south-east of the tumulus of Priam,which I hold with Mr. Calvert to be the ancient city ofGergis, and which for nearly a century has had theundeserved honour of being considered as the real site ofTroy. Nothing is visible above ground of the wall of. 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, accordin
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