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 . ongs to the first periodin the history of the second city, and has a tower (markedO on Plan VII.), which corresponds with the tower o zuat the north-west corner of the great southern gate N F,as well as with the two towers,/> and/>ri:, to the north-westof the gate F M and R C (see Plan VII.). It is impossibleto say how the upper part of this w^all may have beenconstructed, for we have not
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 . ongs to the first periodin the history of the second city, and has a tower (markedO on Plan VII.), which corresponds with the tower o zuat the north-west corner of the great southern gate N F,as well as with the two towers,/> and/>ri:, to the north-westof the gate F M and R C (see Plan VII.). It is impossibleto say how the upper part of this w^all may have beenconstructed, for we have not found the slightest vestige ofit. The upper part was probably demolished by the secondsettlers themselves, who filled up the inward projectingangle of their Acropolis by erecting the new great wall b(see Plan VII. in this volume, and Plan I. and engravingNo. 144 in Ilios). The demolition of the upper part ofthe wall c cannot have taken place in the great catastrophe,for the great hollow between the walls c and b does notcontain any debris of bricks, but only the black earth andgravel with which it had been filled up. The front of thewall c slants at an angle of 45°; the other side is No. 15.—View of the i^ Substructi^n Wall of the Acropolis of the sec^jiid city on the west side, close to the south-west gate.• the paved road, which leads from the south-west gate down to the plain, and which is marked T U on Plan VII., and1 the sketch No. 17, p. 68. the continuation of the great Acropolis-wall of the second city on the west side of the south-west gate,lie foundation of the paved road and the quadrangular pier to strengtnen it, marked Y on Hlan VII , and on theetch No. 17, p. added by the third settlers. c,6 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. In spite f)f the most eager researches, we have not beenable to hnd out tlic course of the wall r on the north-eastside. But, from the direction of the layers o{ debris in thetrench S S, my architects ascertain
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