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 . erhaps four thousandyears to frost and heat, rain and sunshine, it could stilllook quite fresh; but it bewilders the mind still more tothink how the chalk, with which the ornamentation wasfilled in, could have withstood for long ages the incle-mencies of the seasons. I also picked up there manyfeet of terra-cotta tripods; saddle-querns of trachyte (likeNos. 74, 75, p. 234, and No. 678, p. 447, i
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 . erhaps four thousandyears to frost and heat, rain and sunshine, it could stilllook quite fresh; but it bewilders the mind still more tothink how the chalk, with which the ornamentation wasfilled in, could have withstood for long ages the incle-mencies of the seasons. I also picked up there manyfeet of terra-cotta tripods; saddle-querns of trachyte (likeNos. 74, 75, p. 234, and No. 678, p. 447, in Ilios) ; smallknives or saws of chalcedony or flint (like Nos. 93-98,p. 246, in Ilios); some rude hammers of black diorite (likeNo. 83, p. 237, in Ilios), together with a very fine speci-men of a perforated hammer and axe of diorite, which Irepresent here under No. 134, and a fine axe and hammerof grey diorite (like No. 621, p. 438, in Ilios), wAxh. grooveson both sides, showing that the perforation had been com-menced but abandoned. I also picked up there a certainnumber of corn-bruisers of silicious stone (like Nos. 80, 81. p. 236, in Ilios). 18 25i THE HEROIC TUMULI IN THE TROAD. [Chap. VL. Having heard that the proprietor of the tumulus, aTurk in SechUil Bahr, was in prison for the theft of a horse,and feehng sure that I could easily settle the indemnitylater on by the intervention of the kind civilgovernor of the Dardanelles, Hamid Pasha;!:)eing moreover afraid that the ever sus-])icious and envious military governor ofthe Dardanelles, Djemal Pasha, mightthrow obstacles in mv wav ;—I did notlose a moment of my precious time, and,having brought with me pickaxes, shovels,baskets, etc., I at once ordered the fourworkmen to sink, just in the middle of theNo. 134.—Hammer and summlt, a shaft thtee metres in length and Axe of Diorite, with - perforation. Size about breadth. I had doue exceedingly well to 1:3; found on the sur- i 1 r 1 face of the tumulus of hutry ou tlic wo
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