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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TROY AND ITS REMAINS.

[Ch. III. 1871.

(Santorin) under three layers of volcanic ashes, forming
together a height of 68 feet.

My expectations are extremely modest; I have no hope
of finding plastic works of art. The single object of my
excavations from the beginning was only to find Troy,
whose site has been discussed. by a hundred scholars in a
hundred books, but which as yet no one has ever sought to
bring to light by excavations. If I should not succeed in
this, still I shall be perfectly contented, if by my labours
I succeed only in penetrating to the deepest darkness of
pre-historic times, and enriching archaeology by the dis-
covery of a few interesting features from the most ancient
history of the great Hellenic race. The discovery of the
stone period, instead of discouraging me, has therefore only
made me the more desirous to penetrate to the place which
was occupied by the first people that came here, and I still
intend to reach it even if I should have to dig another
50 feet further down.

Note.—The " Stone Period " described in this chapter seems to be
that of the third stratum upwards from the rock (4 to 7 meters, or 13 to
23 feet deep) ; but the description does not make this perfectly clear.—
[Ed.]

(9 M-) (7 M-) (14 M.)

Nos. 42-44. Terra-cotta Whorls.
No. 44 is remarkable for the depth at which it was found.