Schliemann, Heinrich: Troy and its remains: a narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Illium, and in the Trojan Plain (London, 1875)

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CHAPTER II.

ber of workmen — Discoveries at 2 to 4 meters deep — Greek coins

•Remxrkable terra-cottas with small stamps, probably Ex votos —

These cease, and are succeeded by the whorls — Bones of sharks,

shells of mussels and oysters, and pottery — Three Greek Inscriptions

— The splendid panoramic view from Hissarlik — The Plain of Troy
and the heroic tumuli—Thymbria : Mr. Frank Calvert's Museum —
The mound of Ghana! Tepe" — The Scamander and its ancient bed

— Valley of the Simoi's, and ruins of Ophrynium.

On the Hill of Hissarlik, October 26th, 1871.

Since my report of the 18th I have continued the excava-
tions with the utmost energy, with, on an average, 80
workmen, and I have to-day reached an average depth of
4 meters (13 feet). At a depth of 6i feet I discovered a well,
covered with a very large stone, and filled with rubbish.
Its depth I have not been able to ascertain; it belongs to the
Roman period, as is proved by the cement with which the
stones are joined together. Ruins of buildings, consisting
of hewn stones joined or not joined by cement, I only find at
about a depth of 1 meters (6i feet). In the layers of debris
between 2 and 4 meters deep (6i to 13 feet), I find scarcely
any stones, and to my delight the huge blocks of stone no
longer occur at all. Medals belonging to Ilium and to the
first and second centuries before Christ, and the first two cen-
turies after Christ, as well as coins of Alexandria Troas and
Sigeum, the age of which I do not know, were found almost
immediately below the surface, and only in some few cases
as deep as 1 meter (3^ feet). By far the greater number of
the Ilian coins bear the image of Minerva, of Faustina the
elder, of Marcus Aurelius, of Faustina the younger, of