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 . No. 114-—Fragment of a Frieze with a Gorgons head, on each side of which is a Xik^.Size about 1:12. No. 115 shows a small relief, representing two horsesgallopping, which is certainly of the Macedonian age. No. 116 is the fragment of a relief which probably. rcjirc-ciuiiij; l\\. ^ ;;.; horses. Certainly of the Macedonian period,bizc about 1:5. ornamented a pediment, representing the ligure of a
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 . No. 114-—Fragment of a Frieze with a Gorgons head, on each side of which is a Xik^.Size about 1:12. No. 115 shows a small relief, representing two horsesgallopping, which is certainly of the Macedonian age. No. 116 is the fragment of a relief which probably. rcjirc-ciuiiij; l\\. ^ ;;.; horses. Certainly of the Macedonian period,bizc about 1:5. ornamented a pediment, representing the ligure of a manholding his right arm over his head. It is probable that all, or nearly all, of these sculpturesbelong to the great Doric temple of Athene, but it isimpossible to assert this with certainty, I take this occasion to assure the reader, on the testimony I-] lUILDIXGS OF THE RtniAX ACE. 207 of my architects, that I was mistaken in beheving that Ihad, in 1873, destroyed the temple of Pahas Athene, in thesouth-eastern part of Hissarhk, and that it was merely thesubstruction of a Roman pt)rtico which I had to destroyfor the most part, in order to be able to excavate theprehistoric cities underneath. The many other edifices, of which we found isolatedfragments, seem to belong to the Roman time. Nearly allthese edifices were built of marble; most of them are inthe Doric style; some few^ show the Ionic or Corinthianstyle Of the Doric edifices, there are o
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