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)

Terra-cotta Tablets from the Greek Stratum (1-2 M.).



TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Editor's Preface ..

Autobiographical Notice of Dr. Henry Schliemann..

Diagram showing the successive Strata of Remains on the Hill

of Hissarlik
Introduction
Comparative Table of French Meters and English Measures ..

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WORK AT HISSARLIK IN 187L
CHAPTER I.

On the Hillof Hissarlik, October 18//&, 1871.

The site of Ilium described— Excavations in 1870 : the City Wall of Lysi-
machus — Purchase of the site and grant of a.Jir?nan —Arrival of Dr. and
Madame Schliemann in 1871, and beginning of the Excavations — The
Hill of Hissarlik, the Acropolis of the Greek Ilium — Search for its
limits — Difficulties of the work — The great cutting on the North side —
Greek coins found—Dangers from fever.............. 57

CHAPTER II.

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

Number of workmen — Discoveries at 2 to 4 meters ^leep—Greek coins —
Remarkable terra-cottas with small stamps, probably Ex votos — These
cease, and are succeeded by the whorls — Bones of sharks, shells of mus-
sels 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 Chana'i
Tep£ — The Scamander and its ancient bed — Valley of the Simoi's, and
Ruins of Ophrynium ...................... 64

CHAPTER III.

On the Hill of Hissarlik, November yd, 1871.

Puzzling transitions from the " Stone Age" to a higher civilization — The
stone age reappears in force, mixed with pottery of fine workmanship, and