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WOT(rC AT HI3$A^J^IK itf 1873.
CHAPTER XV.
Return to Hissarlik in 1873 — Interruptions by holydays and weather
— Strong cold north winds — Importance of good overseers — An
artist taken to draw the objects found — Want of workmen — Exca
vations on the site of the Temple — Blocks of Greek sculptured
marble — Great increase of the hill to the east — Further portions
of the great Trojan wall -— Traces of fire — A terra-cotta hippo-
potamus, a sign of intercourse with Egypt — Idols and owl-faced
vases — Vases of very curious forms —' Whorls — Sling-bullets of
copper and stone — Piece of ornamented ivory belonging to a
musical instrument — New cutting from S.E. to N.W.—Walls
close below the surface — Wall of Lysimachus — Monograms on
the stones — An inscription in honour of Caius Caesar — Patronage
of Ilium by the Julii as the descendants of yEneas — Good wine of
the Troad.
Pergamus of Troy, February 22nd, 1873.
I returned here on the 31st of January with my wife, in
order to continue the excavations, but we have been
repeatedly interrupted by Greek church festivals, thunder-
storms, and also by the excessive cold, so that I can scarcely
reckon that I have had as yet more than eight good days
work. Last autumn, by the side of my two wooden houses,
I had a house built for myself of stones from the old Trojan
buildings, the walls of which were 2 feet thick, but I was
compelled to let my foremen occupy it, for they were not
sufficiently provided with clothes and wrappers, and would
have perished through the great cold. My poor wife and
I have therefore suffered very much, for the strong icy
WOT(rC AT HI3$A^J^IK itf 1873.
CHAPTER XV.
Return to Hissarlik in 1873 — Interruptions by holydays and weather
— Strong cold north winds — Importance of good overseers — An
artist taken to draw the objects found — Want of workmen — Exca
vations on the site of the Temple — Blocks of Greek sculptured
marble — Great increase of the hill to the east — Further portions
of the great Trojan wall -— Traces of fire — A terra-cotta hippo-
potamus, a sign of intercourse with Egypt — Idols and owl-faced
vases — Vases of very curious forms —' Whorls — Sling-bullets of
copper and stone — Piece of ornamented ivory belonging to a
musical instrument — New cutting from S.E. to N.W.—Walls
close below the surface — Wall of Lysimachus — Monograms on
the stones — An inscription in honour of Caius Caesar — Patronage
of Ilium by the Julii as the descendants of yEneas — Good wine of
the Troad.
Pergamus of Troy, February 22nd, 1873.
I returned here on the 31st of January with my wife, in
order to continue the excavations, but we have been
repeatedly interrupted by Greek church festivals, thunder-
storms, and also by the excessive cold, so that I can scarcely
reckon that I have had as yet more than eight good days
work. Last autumn, by the side of my two wooden houses,
I had a house built for myself of stones from the old Trojan
buildings, the walls of which were 2 feet thick, but I was
compelled to let my foremen occupy it, for they were not
sufficiently provided with clothes and wrappers, and would
have perished through the great cold. My poor wife and
I have therefore suffered very much, for the strong icy