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122 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
lication of the partial results already obtained considered
desirable, there does not now remain time for the comparative
studies to which it would lead. The season is approaching
when the trenches are freed from the frosts of winter, and
the active work of the second season is at once to be begun.
Still, in order to indicate the scope of the investigations, a
number of illustrations are given which require a brief ex-
planation.
In descending from the upper step of the Acropolis, re-
mains of Hellenic fortifications are met at the northeastern
extremity of the lower level. The enclosures at this point rise
to a height of one metre above the present surface of the
ground, being of a heavy masonry of equal courses, apparently
of about the same character and date as the extensive city
walls.
These ramparts must have been overthrown at a compara-
tively early age, for they appear as the foundations of a square
tower of good mediaeval masonry (Plate 23), which has been
filled by the kitchen debris and ashes of successive occupants
to a height of not less than eight metres above its floor. The
door of this structure seems to have opened upon the platform
of the ramparts which enclosed the lower Acropolis ; and as
this wall has been demolished, there is now no accessible
entrance. The corner of the tower has been broken into by
the Turks, at which point the stratified debris is exposed.
The Byzantine church, now serving as a mosque, is sepa-
rated from the tower by a narrow passage, and, as may be
seen from the plan (Plate 2), stood outside the fortifications.
This is the building—"un ancien temple de forme elegante,
moitie' carre, moitie conique"— which appeared so remarkable
to Poujoulat, who maintained that " la religion musulmane
nous a ainsi conserve dans son int^grite premiere un monu-
ment appartenant aux beaux ages de la Grece."
lication of the partial results already obtained considered
desirable, there does not now remain time for the comparative
studies to which it would lead. The season is approaching
when the trenches are freed from the frosts of winter, and
the active work of the second season is at once to be begun.
Still, in order to indicate the scope of the investigations, a
number of illustrations are given which require a brief ex-
planation.
In descending from the upper step of the Acropolis, re-
mains of Hellenic fortifications are met at the northeastern
extremity of the lower level. The enclosures at this point rise
to a height of one metre above the present surface of the
ground, being of a heavy masonry of equal courses, apparently
of about the same character and date as the extensive city
walls.
These ramparts must have been overthrown at a compara-
tively early age, for they appear as the foundations of a square
tower of good mediaeval masonry (Plate 23), which has been
filled by the kitchen debris and ashes of successive occupants
to a height of not less than eight metres above its floor. The
door of this structure seems to have opened upon the platform
of the ramparts which enclosed the lower Acropolis ; and as
this wall has been demolished, there is now no accessible
entrance. The corner of the tower has been broken into by
the Turks, at which point the stratified debris is exposed.
The Byzantine church, now serving as a mosque, is sepa-
rated from the tower by a narrow passage, and, as may be
seen from the plan (Plate 2), stood outside the fortifications.
This is the building—"un ancien temple de forme elegante,
moitie' carre, moitie conique"— which appeared so remarkable
to Poujoulat, who maintained that " la religion musulmane
nous a ainsi conserve dans son int^grite premiere un monu-
ment appartenant aux beaux ages de la Grece."