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Ch. XIII. 1872.] OBJECTS FOUND ON THE TOWER. 213
however, as far as I can at present judge, four broad steps
have been preserved.* On the western side it is only
9 meters or 30 feet in breadth, and on this side there
extends to the north an enormous wall, the thickness of
which I have not been able to ascertain. The fact of my
not having been able to carry these new excavations down
to the primary soil, but only to a depth of 11 meters
(36^ feet) is owing to the brittle nature of the walls of
rubbish and ruins round about the Tower, which, as any-
one may convince himself, consist of red ashes and of
stones calcined by the heat, and which threatened at any
moment to fall in and bury my workmen.
Upon the Tower, and more especially in the long oval
depression on the top of it, and upon the steps I found
two copper Trojan lances, several arrow-heads in the
primitive form of thick pegs, from above 1 inch to
nearly 3 inches long, which were fastened at the end of the
shaft; further, an arrow-head %\ inches in length, made
of silex, and in the form of a pointed double-edged saw;
then several copper and silver nails with round heads, which
may have served as clothes-pins; further, great quantities
of bones, masses of fragments of Trojan pottery of a
brilliant red and black, and a number of vases and pots
more or less well preserved. Among them is a pretty
brilliant red vase nearly 10 inches high, filled with the
bones of a sea-fish. This vase (found in an urn, which
was unfortunately broken to pieces) has two small handles,
and on two sides an ornament in the form of the Greek
letter Lambda, but with circular ends.f Three other vases
Respecting these steps, which are marked No. 6, on Plan II., and
c on Plan III., p. 306, see further in Chapter XXII., p. 318, where the
'dea of an upper storey is rejected.—[Ed.]
+ The cut represents a vase of this type, with the upper part joined
on by Dr. Schliemann, who remarks that it is doubtful whether the owl's
■ace belongs to this vase, as the Ilian goddess is in no other case repre-
sented on vases without the breasts and abdomen. (Description in the
Atlas of Photographs.)
however, as far as I can at present judge, four broad steps
have been preserved.* On the western side it is only
9 meters or 30 feet in breadth, and on this side there
extends to the north an enormous wall, the thickness of
which I have not been able to ascertain. The fact of my
not having been able to carry these new excavations down
to the primary soil, but only to a depth of 11 meters
(36^ feet) is owing to the brittle nature of the walls of
rubbish and ruins round about the Tower, which, as any-
one may convince himself, consist of red ashes and of
stones calcined by the heat, and which threatened at any
moment to fall in and bury my workmen.
Upon the Tower, and more especially in the long oval
depression on the top of it, and upon the steps I found
two copper Trojan lances, several arrow-heads in the
primitive form of thick pegs, from above 1 inch to
nearly 3 inches long, which were fastened at the end of the
shaft; further, an arrow-head %\ inches in length, made
of silex, and in the form of a pointed double-edged saw;
then several copper and silver nails with round heads, which
may have served as clothes-pins; further, great quantities
of bones, masses of fragments of Trojan pottery of a
brilliant red and black, and a number of vases and pots
more or less well preserved. Among them is a pretty
brilliant red vase nearly 10 inches high, filled with the
bones of a sea-fish. This vase (found in an urn, which
was unfortunately broken to pieces) has two small handles,
and on two sides an ornament in the form of the Greek
letter Lambda, but with circular ends.f Three other vases
Respecting these steps, which are marked No. 6, on Plan II., and
c on Plan III., p. 306, see further in Chapter XXII., p. 318, where the
'dea of an upper storey is rejected.—[Ed.]
+ The cut represents a vase of this type, with the upper part joined
on by Dr. Schliemann, who remarks that it is doubtful whether the owl's
■ace belongs to this vase, as the Ilian goddess is in no other case repre-
sented on vases without the breasts and abdomen. (Description in the
Atlas of Photographs.)