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144 TROY AND ITS REMAINS. [Chap. X.
painted and plain terra-cottas of Greek Ilium — Date of the Greek
colony — Signs that the old inhabitants were not extirpated — The
whorls of very coarse clay and patterns — Well, and jars for water
and wine — Proofs of the regular succession of nations on the hill —
Reply to the arguments of M. Nikolaides for the site at Bunarbashi
— The Simoi's, Thymbrius, and Scamander — The tomb of Ajax at
In-Te'pe' — Remains in it—Temple of Ajax and town of Aianteum
— Tomb of Achilles and town of Achilleum — Tombs of Patroclus
and Antilochus — The Greek camp — The tomb of Batiea or
Myrina — Further discussion of the site.
On the Hill of Hissarlik, June i8th, 1872.
Since my report of the 23rd of last month I have been
excavating, with the consent of my honoured friend, Mr.
Frank Calvert, on that half of the hill which belongs to him,
on condition that I share with him the objects I may find.
Here, directly beside my large platform, and at a perpen-
dicular depth of 40 feet below the plateau, I have laid out a
third platform about 109 feet broad, with an upper terrace
112 feet broad, and I have seventy men digging there.
Immediately beside the edge of the steep northern declivity
I found a square depression in the ground about 112 feet
long and 76 feet broad, which can only have been caused by
excavations made by the Turks hundreds of years ago,
when searching for pillars or other kinds of marble blocks
suitable for tombstones: for all of the old Turkish ceme-
teries in the Plain of Troy and its vicinity, nay even as far
as beyond Alexandria Troas, possess thousands of such
marble blocks, taken from ancient buildings. The in-
numerable pieces of marble, which cover the whole of Mr.
Frank Calvert's part of the plateau, leave no doubt that
the field, at least that part of it with the square depression,
has been ransacked by marble-seeking Turks.
I had scarcely begun to extend this third platform
horizontally into the hill, when I found a block of triglyphs
of Parian marble, about 6h feet long, nearly 2 feet 10 inches
high, and nearly 22 inches thick at one end, and a little over
14 inches on the other. In the middle there is a piece ol
painted and plain terra-cottas of Greek Ilium — Date of the Greek
colony — Signs that the old inhabitants were not extirpated — The
whorls of very coarse clay and patterns — Well, and jars for water
and wine — Proofs of the regular succession of nations on the hill —
Reply to the arguments of M. Nikolaides for the site at Bunarbashi
— The Simoi's, Thymbrius, and Scamander — The tomb of Ajax at
In-Te'pe' — Remains in it—Temple of Ajax and town of Aianteum
— Tomb of Achilles and town of Achilleum — Tombs of Patroclus
and Antilochus — The Greek camp — The tomb of Batiea or
Myrina — Further discussion of the site.
On the Hill of Hissarlik, June i8th, 1872.
Since my report of the 23rd of last month I have been
excavating, with the consent of my honoured friend, Mr.
Frank Calvert, on that half of the hill which belongs to him,
on condition that I share with him the objects I may find.
Here, directly beside my large platform, and at a perpen-
dicular depth of 40 feet below the plateau, I have laid out a
third platform about 109 feet broad, with an upper terrace
112 feet broad, and I have seventy men digging there.
Immediately beside the edge of the steep northern declivity
I found a square depression in the ground about 112 feet
long and 76 feet broad, which can only have been caused by
excavations made by the Turks hundreds of years ago,
when searching for pillars or other kinds of marble blocks
suitable for tombstones: for all of the old Turkish ceme-
teries in the Plain of Troy and its vicinity, nay even as far
as beyond Alexandria Troas, possess thousands of such
marble blocks, taken from ancient buildings. The in-
numerable pieces of marble, which cover the whole of Mr.
Frank Calvert's part of the plateau, leave no doubt that
the field, at least that part of it with the square depression,
has been ransacked by marble-seeking Turks.
I had scarcely begun to extend this third platform
horizontally into the hill, when I found a block of triglyphs
of Parian marble, about 6h feet long, nearly 2 feet 10 inches
high, and nearly 22 inches thick at one end, and a little over
14 inches on the other. In the middle there is a piece ol