. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. ne, is seenon the south, west, east. The foundation wall, six-teen feet thick and fifteen to twenty feet high, is scala-ble on the east side. Upon this is built a perpendicu-lar upper wall, six feet thick. There are three gates—one on the south, another on the southwest, anotheron the east. A tower stands by the south gate, an-other juts out farther toward the east wall, while atthe northeast corner rises a mighty tower whichguards the water supply.^ Vases of ^Mycenaean pattern were unearthe
. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. ne, is seenon the south, west, east. The foundation wall, six-teen feet thick and fifteen to twenty feet high, is scala-ble on the east side. Upon this is built a perpendicu-lar upper wall, six feet thick. There are three gates—one on the south, another on the southwest, anotheron the east. A tower stands by the south gate, an-other juts out farther toward the east wall, while atthe northeast corner rises a mighty tower whichguards the water supply.^ Vases of ^Mycenaean pattern were unearthed, in- 1 Dorpfeld, Troja, Bericht iiber die im Jahre 1893 in Trojaveraiistalteten Ausgrabungen. 2 Dorpfeld, Mitth. Ath., 1894. THE TEOAD eluding the lustrous false-necked Mycenaean of these jars—unique specimens of ceramic art—has a closed neck with a spout close beside it, throughwhich the liquid is poured, while the handles, join-ing the neck, resemble a pair of stirrups; hence theGerman name, stirrup-jar {Jjiigellxcmne). Sincethe general type of pottery of this stratum is the de-. Fig. 8. False-Necked Mycenaean Jab veloped monochrome and prol>r!l)ly a native product,the Mycenaean ware must be explained as importa-tions.^ The following points of comparison between the VICity and Homeric Troy were given by Dorpfeld inthe report^ of his work ftir 1893: 1. The Pergamos of Troy, according to Homer,was no level citadel, since near the dwellings lay ] TToXci (X, 172) an altar of Zeus. So, ac-cording to the conception of the poet, there was ahighest point in the citadel, where was the altar ofZeus and perhaps the two temples of Athena andApollo. For the citadel of the second stratum such iBriickner, Die keramischen Funde, Troja, pp. , Troja, Bericht iiber die im Jahre 1893 in Trojaveraustalteten Ausgrabungen, pp. 56-60.
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