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230 TROY AND ITS REMAINS. [Chap. XV.
vessel of a similar form and description ; this double vessel
had a ring on either side for suspension by strings. Of the
other earthenware I can only mention a small curious vase
which has three long feet, one handle, and two others in
the form of ears.
The round articles of terra-cotta in the form of vol-
canoes and humming-tops, with symbolical decorations, were
met with in great quantities, as they always are. Four sling-
bullets were discovered, one of which, made of copper, was
brought out from a depth of 49 feet, one of alabaster from
23 feet, and two of diorite from a depth of from 20 to 23
feet. At a depth of 4 meters (13 feet) I found a splendidly
ornamented flat piece of ivory, which must evidently have
been part of a musical instrument.* Lastly, at the depth
of 1 meter (31 feet) there was a fragment of a female
statue of fine marble, executed in a masterly style. It not
improbably represents the tutelary goddess of Ilium, whose
temple, as we know, stood in the Pergamus.
Simultaneously with these excavations I had 22 men
working in a north-westerly direction, from the south-
eastern corner of the Acropolis, in order to lay bare the
Great Tower still further on that side, an operation that
has become impossible to effect from my great trench.
But as the hill at this point has only a very gradual slope
I was compelled to make the new cutting with a con-
siderable slope, which renders the carting-off of the dtbris
much more troublesome, but is absolutely necessary, to
enable us to reach the requisite depth of 26 feet for
arriving at the Tower. At the very commencement of this
cutting, at a foot below the surface, I came upon two
enormous walls, each of which is 10 feet thick. The
first seems to belong to the Middle Ages,f and consists
* See Cut, No. 9, p. 27.
t Dr. Schliemann afterwards assigned these Corinthian pillars to the
time of Constantine. (See Chapter XXII., p. 320, and Introduction,
p. 30.—[Kd.]
vessel of a similar form and description ; this double vessel
had a ring on either side for suspension by strings. Of the
other earthenware I can only mention a small curious vase
which has three long feet, one handle, and two others in
the form of ears.
The round articles of terra-cotta in the form of vol-
canoes and humming-tops, with symbolical decorations, were
met with in great quantities, as they always are. Four sling-
bullets were discovered, one of which, made of copper, was
brought out from a depth of 49 feet, one of alabaster from
23 feet, and two of diorite from a depth of from 20 to 23
feet. At a depth of 4 meters (13 feet) I found a splendidly
ornamented flat piece of ivory, which must evidently have
been part of a musical instrument.* Lastly, at the depth
of 1 meter (31 feet) there was a fragment of a female
statue of fine marble, executed in a masterly style. It not
improbably represents the tutelary goddess of Ilium, whose
temple, as we know, stood in the Pergamus.
Simultaneously with these excavations I had 22 men
working in a north-westerly direction, from the south-
eastern corner of the Acropolis, in order to lay bare the
Great Tower still further on that side, an operation that
has become impossible to effect from my great trench.
But as the hill at this point has only a very gradual slope
I was compelled to make the new cutting with a con-
siderable slope, which renders the carting-off of the dtbris
much more troublesome, but is absolutely necessary, to
enable us to reach the requisite depth of 26 feet for
arriving at the Tower. At the very commencement of this
cutting, at a foot below the surface, I came upon two
enormous walls, each of which is 10 feet thick. The
first seems to belong to the Middle Ages,f and consists
* See Cut, No. 9, p. 27.
t Dr. Schliemann afterwards assigned these Corinthian pillars to the
time of Constantine. (See Chapter XXII., p. 320, and Introduction,
p. 30.—[Kd.]