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)

THE PERGAMUS OF TROY.

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the nave it has five rising suns. As usual, these decorations
are engraved and filled with a white substance.

Of pillars I have as yet found no trace in Troy; hence
if there existed real pillars, they must in all cases have been
of wood. Moreover, the word " kCcdv" is never met with in
the Iliad, and only in the Odyssey. In a house at a depth
of 39J feet, I found a prettily carved and very hard piece
of limestone in the form of a crescent, with a round hole
ii inch deep, and
I conjecture that it
may have been used
as the support for
a door.

In conclusion,
I flatter myself with
the hope that, as
a reward for my
enormous expenses
and all my priva-
tions, annoyances,
and sufferings in
this wilderness, but
above all for my
important disco -
series, the civilized
world will acknow-
ledge my right to
re-christen this sacred locality; and in the name of the
divine Homer I baptize it with that name of immortal
renown, which fills the heart of everyone with joy and
enthusiasm: I give it the name of "Troy" and "Ilium,"
and I call the Acropolis, where I am writing these lines, by
the name of the " Pergamus of Troy" *

Block of Limestone, with a socket, in which the pivot
of a door may have turned (12 M.l.

This last name was afterwards recalled by Dr. Schliemann, and that
°f " Ilium " or " Troy " confined to the Hill of Hissarlik. See Chapter
* XIII> P- 343J and Introduction, p. 18.

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