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I873-] TEMPLE OF APOELO. 257
It is now quite certain that the Doric temple, which
at one time stood on the north side, and in the depths
of which I have so long been working, was the sanctuary
of Apollo; and that the block of Doric triglyphs so
frequently mentioned belonged to this temple of Apollo,
and to none other; since Ilium's great temple, which I
am now investigating, could only have been dedicated to
the tutelary goddess of Ilium, Athena, for in the great
inscription quoted in my last report it is simply called
to iepov.
In order to try to find the second block of triglyphs, I
have since yesterday set 25 men to work upwards from
the foot of the hill at the point where the Phoebus Apollo
was found, over a breadth of 59 feet, to remove the debris
which unfortunately I had thrown down the declivity last
year, and which forms a covering of 23 feet in thickness ;
and then to dig away the whole steep side of the hill to
a depth of \\ feet from the bottom upwards.
As soon as I have workmen to spare, I shall also em-
ploy thirty to make a deep cutting into the theatre, the
stage of which, as already said, is 197 feet broad; this
cutting I intend to make 2,3 feet broad and 148 feet long;
for, in a small opening which I made there last year, I
found a number of fragments of broken statues, and it is
quite possible that some, which might be of the greatest
interest to archaeology, escaped the zeal of the early
Christians.
The many thousands of stones which I bring out of
the depths of Ilium have induced the inhabitants of the
surrounding villages to erect buildings which might be
called grand for the inhabitants of this wilderness. Among
others, they are at present building with my Uian stones
a mosque and a minaret in the wretched Turkish village
or Chiplak, and a church-tower in the Christian village of
lenishehr. A number of two-wheeled carts, drawn by
oxen, are always standing by the side of my excavations,
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It is now quite certain that the Doric temple, which
at one time stood on the north side, and in the depths
of which I have so long been working, was the sanctuary
of Apollo; and that the block of Doric triglyphs so
frequently mentioned belonged to this temple of Apollo,
and to none other; since Ilium's great temple, which I
am now investigating, could only have been dedicated to
the tutelary goddess of Ilium, Athena, for in the great
inscription quoted in my last report it is simply called
to iepov.
In order to try to find the second block of triglyphs, I
have since yesterday set 25 men to work upwards from
the foot of the hill at the point where the Phoebus Apollo
was found, over a breadth of 59 feet, to remove the debris
which unfortunately I had thrown down the declivity last
year, and which forms a covering of 23 feet in thickness ;
and then to dig away the whole steep side of the hill to
a depth of \\ feet from the bottom upwards.
As soon as I have workmen to spare, I shall also em-
ploy thirty to make a deep cutting into the theatre, the
stage of which, as already said, is 197 feet broad; this
cutting I intend to make 2,3 feet broad and 148 feet long;
for, in a small opening which I made there last year, I
found a number of fragments of broken statues, and it is
quite possible that some, which might be of the greatest
interest to archaeology, escaped the zeal of the early
Christians.
The many thousands of stones which I bring out of
the depths of Ilium have induced the inhabitants of the
surrounding villages to erect buildings which might be
called grand for the inhabitants of this wilderness. Among
others, they are at present building with my Uian stones
a mosque and a minaret in the wretched Turkish village
or Chiplak, and a church-tower in the Christian village of
lenishehr. A number of two-wheeled carts, drawn by
oxen, are always standing by the side of my excavations,
s