. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. er things, by the contents of thelargest silver vase, consisting of nearly 9000 objects of gold, which willbe described in the subsequent pages. The person who endeavoured tosave the Treasure had, fortunately, the presence of mind to place thesilver vase, with the valuable articles inside it, upright in the chest, sothat nothing could fall out, and everything has been preserved uninjured.
. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. er things, by the contents of thelargest silver vase, consisting of nearly 9000 objects of gold, which willbe described in the subsequent pages. The person who endeavoured tosave the Treasure had, fortunately, the presence of mind to place thesilver vase, with the valuable articles inside it, upright in the chest, sothat nothing could fall out, and everything has been preserved uninjured. But as in 1878 and 1879 I found, at a dis- storey of the towu-chiefs house, I now rather tance of but a few yards from the spot where think that the same may have been the case this treasure was discovered, four more treasures, with the large treasure,which must evidentlv have fallen from an ui^iipr 42 NAERATIVE OF WORK AT TROY. TtNTEOD, Hoping to find more treasures here, I pulled down the upper wall,and I also broke away the enormous block of debris which separated mywestern and north-western trenches^ from the great massive walls whichI used to call the Tower. But to do this I had to pull down the. ?lilllilillKllllBlllillM
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