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INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1881. 147
this gateway and the Acropolis was merely a re-entering angle of
the wall; but on the other side the entrance was commanded by a
large square tower. Looking outward from this gateway, the visitor
sees above, on the left, a curious bit of wall on the side of the
Acropolis, in which two large rocks have apparently been utilized
in situ.
Just outside the gate are half a dozen shallow graves, each lined
with four rough slabs of stone. They were excavated by Mr. Cal-
vert, who found in them pottery, which in his opinion forms a link
between the art of the Lydian city of Hissarlik (the sixth, accord-
ing to Dr. Schliemann's present numbering) and archaic Greek
work. Most remarkable are the terra-cotta figures of an Egyptian
or Assyrian type. Many of the vases are of a dark gray clay, and
similar in form to those found at Hissarlik. Some scarabaei were
found; but these are supposed to be imitations. The fact that
these graves were unrifled tends to strengthen the impression that
this site was not occupied by later races.
If we can form any judgment from the contrast between these
little graves just outside the great gate of Chigri and the magnifi-
cent street of tombs, crowded with exedrae and sarcophagi, in the
corresponding position at Assos, we can infer that here there was
never much display of wealth and splendor.
FROM INE TO BUNARBASHI.
We first saw the Mendereh, by general consent identified with the
Homeric river Scamander,—
ov SdvBov KaX.eov<ri #eot, auSpes Se "2Kap.avhpov, —
in September, at a point an hour's walk north of Ine. It was run-
ning with a swift clear stream, half a metre deep at most, and half
a dozen metres in width, winding among the banks of sand that
fill its broad winter bed. Fish three or four inches long were
abundant. The plain is here about two kilometres wide, and was
at the time of our visit covered with maize. Further north the
wooded hills close in, and for several hours the road follows the
curves of the river around their bases. At last the path seems to
be crowded down into the sand at the very brink of the river; and
this gateway and the Acropolis was merely a re-entering angle of
the wall; but on the other side the entrance was commanded by a
large square tower. Looking outward from this gateway, the visitor
sees above, on the left, a curious bit of wall on the side of the
Acropolis, in which two large rocks have apparently been utilized
in situ.
Just outside the gate are half a dozen shallow graves, each lined
with four rough slabs of stone. They were excavated by Mr. Cal-
vert, who found in them pottery, which in his opinion forms a link
between the art of the Lydian city of Hissarlik (the sixth, accord-
ing to Dr. Schliemann's present numbering) and archaic Greek
work. Most remarkable are the terra-cotta figures of an Egyptian
or Assyrian type. Many of the vases are of a dark gray clay, and
similar in form to those found at Hissarlik. Some scarabaei were
found; but these are supposed to be imitations. The fact that
these graves were unrifled tends to strengthen the impression that
this site was not occupied by later races.
If we can form any judgment from the contrast between these
little graves just outside the great gate of Chigri and the magnifi-
cent street of tombs, crowded with exedrae and sarcophagi, in the
corresponding position at Assos, we can infer that here there was
never much display of wealth and splendor.
FROM INE TO BUNARBASHI.
We first saw the Mendereh, by general consent identified with the
Homeric river Scamander,—
ov SdvBov KaX.eov<ri #eot, auSpes Se "2Kap.avhpov, —
in September, at a point an hour's walk north of Ine. It was run-
ning with a swift clear stream, half a metre deep at most, and half
a dozen metres in width, winding among the banks of sand that
fill its broad winter bed. Fish three or four inches long were
abundant. The plain is here about two kilometres wide, and was
at the time of our visit covered with maize. Further north the
wooded hills close in, and for several hours the road follows the
curves of the river around their bases. At last the path seems to
be crowded down into the sand at the very brink of the river; and