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140 TROY AND ITS REMAINS. [Chap. IX.
Of cellars, such as we have in civilized countries, I have
as yet found not the slightest trace, either in the strata of
the Hellenic or in those of the pre-Hellenic period; earthen
vessels seem everywhere to have been used in their stead.
On my southern platform, in the strata of Hellenic times,
I have already had ten such vessels dug out in an uninjured
condition; they are from 5 J to 6\ feet high, and from 2, to
\\ feet in diameter, but without decorations.* I sent seven
of these jars (ttlOol) to the Museum in Constantinople.
In the strata of the pre-Hellenic period I find an
immense number of these irffloi, but I have as yet only
succeeded in getting two of them out uninjured, from a
depth of 26 feet; these are about 3^ feet high and 26!
inches in diameter; they have only unimportant deco-
rations.
In my last communication, I was able to speak of a
lesser number of the blocks of stone obstructing the works
upon the great platform; to-day, however, I have again
unfortunately to report a considerable increase of them.
At a distance of scarcely 328 yards from my house, on
the south side, and at the part of the plateau of Ilium in a
direct perpendicular line below the ruined city wall, which
seems to have been built by Lysimachus, I have now dis-
covered the stone quarry, whence all those colossal masses
of shelly limestone {Muschelkalk) were obtained, which
the Trojans and their successors, down to a time after the
Christian era, employed in building their houses and walls,
and which have given my workmen and me such inex-
pressible anxiety, trouble, and labour. The entrance to
the quarry, which is called by the native Greeks and
Turks "lagum" ("mine" or "tunnel," from the Arabic
word ^i), which has passed over into Turkish), is filled
with rubbish, but, as I am assured by all the people about
* Some examples of these jars, still more interesting on account of
the great depth at which they were found, are seen in Plate XI., p. 290.
Of cellars, such as we have in civilized countries, I have
as yet found not the slightest trace, either in the strata of
the Hellenic or in those of the pre-Hellenic period; earthen
vessels seem everywhere to have been used in their stead.
On my southern platform, in the strata of Hellenic times,
I have already had ten such vessels dug out in an uninjured
condition; they are from 5 J to 6\ feet high, and from 2, to
\\ feet in diameter, but without decorations.* I sent seven
of these jars (ttlOol) to the Museum in Constantinople.
In the strata of the pre-Hellenic period I find an
immense number of these irffloi, but I have as yet only
succeeded in getting two of them out uninjured, from a
depth of 26 feet; these are about 3^ feet high and 26!
inches in diameter; they have only unimportant deco-
rations.
In my last communication, I was able to speak of a
lesser number of the blocks of stone obstructing the works
upon the great platform; to-day, however, I have again
unfortunately to report a considerable increase of them.
At a distance of scarcely 328 yards from my house, on
the south side, and at the part of the plateau of Ilium in a
direct perpendicular line below the ruined city wall, which
seems to have been built by Lysimachus, I have now dis-
covered the stone quarry, whence all those colossal masses
of shelly limestone {Muschelkalk) were obtained, which
the Trojans and their successors, down to a time after the
Christian era, employed in building their houses and walls,
and which have given my workmen and me such inex-
pressible anxiety, trouble, and labour. The entrance to
the quarry, which is called by the native Greeks and
Turks "lagum" ("mine" or "tunnel," from the Arabic
word ^i), which has passed over into Turkish), is filled
with rubbish, but, as I am assured by all the people about
* Some examples of these jars, still more interesting on account of
the great depth at which they were found, are seen in Plate XI., p. 290.