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1872.] RESULTS OF THE EXCAVATIONS. 217
us by later authors; and, moreover, neither in the Plain of
Troy, nor in its vicinity, is there any other place which
could in the slightest degree be made to correspond with
them. To regard the heights of Bunarbashi as the site
of Troy, contradicts, in every respect, all the statements of
Homer and of tradition. My excavations of Bunarbashi,
as well as the form of the rocks, prove that those heights,
as far as the three sepulchral mounds, can never have been
inhabited by men. As I have already said, behind those
tumuli there are the ruins of a very small town, the. area of
which, surrounded on two sides by the ruins of an enclosing
wall, and on the other side by precipices, is so insignificant,
that at most it can have only possessed 2000 inhabitants.
The enclosing wall of its small Acropolis is scarcely a foot
thick, and the gate scarcely 3^ feet wide. The accumulation
of debris is not worth mentioning, for in many places the
naked flat rocks are seen on the ground of the Acropolis.
Here in Ilium, however, the proportions are very different.
The area of the Greek city, which is indicated by the sur-
rounding wall built by Lysimachus, is large enough for a
population of more than 100,000 souls ; and that the number
of the inhabitants was actually as large is proved by the
stage of the theatre, which is 200 feet in breadth. Here the
surrounding wall of Lysimachus is 6\ feet thick, whereas
the wall which runs out from the Tower at a great depth
below the other seems to be five times as thick, and Homer
assuredly ascribed the erection of the walls of Troy to
Poseidon and Apollo on account of their enormous pro-
portions.* Then, as regards the accumulation of ddbris,
here in the Pergamus there is no place where it amounts
to less than 14 meters, or \6\ feet, and in many places it is
even much more considerable. Thus, for instance, on my
great platform, I only reached the primary soil at a depth
According to Mr. Gladstone's theory, these masses of masonry,
and the tradition ascribing them to Poseidon and Apollo, are signs of
Phoenician influence.—[Ed.]
us by later authors; and, moreover, neither in the Plain of
Troy, nor in its vicinity, is there any other place which
could in the slightest degree be made to correspond with
them. To regard the heights of Bunarbashi as the site
of Troy, contradicts, in every respect, all the statements of
Homer and of tradition. My excavations of Bunarbashi,
as well as the form of the rocks, prove that those heights,
as far as the three sepulchral mounds, can never have been
inhabited by men. As I have already said, behind those
tumuli there are the ruins of a very small town, the. area of
which, surrounded on two sides by the ruins of an enclosing
wall, and on the other side by precipices, is so insignificant,
that at most it can have only possessed 2000 inhabitants.
The enclosing wall of its small Acropolis is scarcely a foot
thick, and the gate scarcely 3^ feet wide. The accumulation
of debris is not worth mentioning, for in many places the
naked flat rocks are seen on the ground of the Acropolis.
Here in Ilium, however, the proportions are very different.
The area of the Greek city, which is indicated by the sur-
rounding wall built by Lysimachus, is large enough for a
population of more than 100,000 souls ; and that the number
of the inhabitants was actually as large is proved by the
stage of the theatre, which is 200 feet in breadth. Here the
surrounding wall of Lysimachus is 6\ feet thick, whereas
the wall which runs out from the Tower at a great depth
below the other seems to be five times as thick, and Homer
assuredly ascribed the erection of the walls of Troy to
Poseidon and Apollo on account of their enormous pro-
portions.* Then, as regards the accumulation of ddbris,
here in the Pergamus there is no place where it amounts
to less than 14 meters, or \6\ feet, and in many places it is
even much more considerable. Thus, for instance, on my
great platform, I only reached the primary soil at a depth
According to Mr. Gladstone's theory, these masses of masonry,
and the tradition ascribing them to Poseidon and Apollo, are signs of
Phoenician influence.—[Ed.]