Schliemann, Heinrich: Troy and its remains: a narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Illium, and in the Trojan Plain (London, 1875)

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CHAPTER XVIII.

Weather and progress of the work — The lion-headed handle of a sceptre

— Lions formerly in the Troad — Various objects found — Pottery

— Implements of stone and copper — Whorls — Balls curiously
decorated— Fragments of musical instruments — Remains of house-
walls — The storks of the Troad.

Pergamus of Troy, March 22nd, 1873.
During this last week we have again had constant splendid
weather, and, with 150 men on an average, I have got
through a good piece of work. On the north side of the
excavation on the site of the Temple of Athena, I have
already reached a depth of 26 feet, and have laid bare the
Tower in several places. The space to be dug down
is now divided into four terraces, and I am having the
lowest terrace, which forms the surface of the Tower,
worked with especially great energy. As the paths are
getting both steeper and longer, the men with the wheel-
barrows have now to stop and rest half-way, so the work
proceeds more slowly every day. Still I hope that I shall
bring to light the whole breadth of the Tower in the eastern
direction in three weeks, but the western side in a week and
a half. The only part of the interior of the Temple of
Athena which I have left standing is' the reservoir built
°f large white stones without cement, which, owing to my
excavations, will in a few days be 26 feet above the Tower,
and will have a very pretty appearance. It is only by
excavating the west side of that part of the Great Tower
vvhich I uncovered last year, that I shall be able to judge
ln what direction the walls run out from it, and what my
next work will be. The most remarkable of the objects

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