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 breadth is 0,303 supposing the existence of such an upper edificewe could not explain the heat which has prevailed here,and which has been so intense that many stones have beenburnt to lime, while the pottery has either crumbledaway or melted into shapeless masses. Having passed the gate proper {fy on Plan ^ II. andthe engraving No. 18), which had probably a double portal,one en
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 breadth is 0,303 supposing the existence of such an upper edificewe could not explain the heat which has prevailed here,and which has been so intense that many stones have beenburnt to lime, while the pottery has either crumbledaway or melted into shapeless masses. Having passed the gate proper {fy on Plan ^ II. andthe engraving No. 18), which had probably a double portal,one enters into the long gallery N F, which is 350 , and leads up to the higher plateau crowned by theprincipal edifices of the Acropolis. The southern portionsof its lateral walls {xg on No. 18 and Plan VII.) are built Chap. III.] SOUTH GATE OF THE ACROPOLIS. of small calcareous stones of somewhat polygonal form,united with a coarse brick cement of clay and straw, whichhas been completely baked and is perfectly similar to thecement used in the edifice A. The northern part of thelateral walls (/ on No. i8 and Plan VII.) consists of smallerstones, more rectangular in form, united with a light-. No. i8.—Ground Plan of the Southern Gate. NF on Plan VII. Scale i: 500. coloured clay cement, which is perfectly similar to the claycement in the edifice B. (Of both these edifices, A and B,I shall speak in the following pages.) The exterior sidesof the lateral walls are covered with a clay coating whichis still partly preserved. Being built in this way, the wallscould not have supported an uj)per edifice, the less so 72 THE SECUND CITY: TRUY. [Chap. III. as their interior sides are vertical, if they had not beenstrengthened with wooden posts (s-;;/ on No. i8), whichwere placed vertically against the walls, at intervals offrom 2 m. to 2* 30 m, and of which considerable remainsare still visible, of course in a carbonized state. Werecognize them also by the impressions they have left ont
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