Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . and other sculptured blocks of marble. All these marbles must havebelonged to the Hellenic buildings, the southern wall of which I laid 1873.] GREEK TEMPLE OF ATHENft 29 bare to a distance of 285\ At first this wall is composed of smallstones joined with cement, and it rests upon well-hewn blocks of lime-stone ; further on it consists solely of this latter masonry. The directionof the wal
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe 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 . and other sculptured blocks of marble. All these marbles must havebelonged to the Hellenic buildings, the southern wall of which I laid 1873.] GREEK TEMPLE OF ATHENft 29 bare to a distance of 285\ At first this wall is composed of smallstones joined with cement, and it rests upon well-hewn blocks of lime-stone ; further on it consists solely of this latter masonry. The directionof the wall, and hence of the whole building, is east south-east. Three inscriptions, which I found among its ruins,11 and one of whichstates that it was set up in the Upov—that is to say, in the temple—leave no doubt that this was the temple of the Ilian Athene, the ttoXl-oO^o? 6ed, for it is only this sanctuary that could have been calledsimply to lepov on account of its size and importance, which surpassedthat of all the other temples of Novum Altar. No. 5. The Excavations below the Temple of Athene. From the the excavations appeared in April 1873. Its foundations nowhere extended to a greater depth than 6J ft. Thefloor, which consisted of large slabs of limestone resting upon doublelayers of hewn blocks of the same material, was frequently covered withonly a foot of vegetable soil, and never with more than 3^ ft. of explains the total absence of entire sculptures; for whatever sculp-tures there were in or upon the temple could not sink into the groundon the summit of the hill when the building was destroyed, and theytherefore remained on the surface for many centuries, till they werebroken up by religious zeal or out of sheer mischief. Hence we caneasily explain the enormous mass of fragments of statues which coverthe entire hill. In order to bring Troy itself to light, I was forced tosacrifice the ruins of this temple, of which I left standing only somepa
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