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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TROY AND ITS REMAINS.

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the remains of bricks of this description, as well as by
red and yellow wood-ashes, to a height of 10 feet. Of
course I leave the altar in sitti, so that visitors to the Troad
may convince themselves by the nature of its pedestal and
of the debris of the earthen wall, beside which it stands,
of the correctness of all these statements, which might
otherwise appear too incredible. The remarkable sub-

No. 188. Great Altar for Sacrifices, found in the depths of the Temple of Athena (^ of the real size}.

structure of this sacrificial altar, the curious dibris in
which it was buried, the preservation of the great house,
which has evidently been burnt, and the walls of which
were built at different epochs, and lastly, the fact that
its spaces were filled with heterogeneous debris and with
colossal jars—all this is a puzzle to me. I confine myself,
therefore, to stating the facts merely, and refrain from
expressing any kind of conjecture.

Above the house, in the south-western wall of this exca-
vation, are the ruins of the southern wall of the Temple of
Athena. They are 5! feet high, and consist of large white