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 I. -

The site of Ilium described — Excavations in 1870 : the City Wall of
Lysimachus — Purchase of the site and grant of a firman — 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.

On the Hill of Hissarlik, in the Plain of Troy,
October 18th, 1871.

In my work 'Ithaca, the Peloponnesus, and Troy,' pub-
lished in 1869, I endeavoured to prove, both by the result
of my own excavations and by the statements of the Iliad,
that the Homeric Troy cannot possibly have been situated
on the heights of Bunarbashi, to which place most archae-
ologists assign it. At the same time I endeavoured to
explain that the site of Troy must necessarily be identical
with the site of that town which, throughout all antiquity
and down to its complete destruction at the end of the
eighth or the beginning of the ninth century a.d.,* was called
Ilium, and not until 1000 years after its disappearance—
that is 1788 a.d.—was christened Ilium Novum by Le-

This date refers to Dr. Schliemann's former opinion, that there
were Byzantine remains at Hissarlik. He now places the final de-
struction of Ilium in the fourth century, on the evidence of the latest
coins found there. See pp. 318, 319.—Ed.