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290 TROY AND ITS REMAINS. [Chap, XXI.
house-walls which must certainly be older; and these too
show indications of having been exposed to a terrible heat.
In fact, the labyrinth of very ancient house-walls, built one
above another, and found in the depths of the Temple of
Athena erected by Lysimachus, is unique, and presents the
archaeologist with the richest materials for his investigations.
But what is most inexplicable to me about this labyrinth of
walls is a wall of fortification, 1 if feet high, running through
it from W.N.W. to E.S.E. This is likewise built of stone
joined with earth, and is 6 feet broad at the top and 12 feet
broad at the foot: it does not stand directly upon the
primary rock, and was not built till the rock had gradually
become covered with a layer of earth if foot in thickness.
It appears therefore to be somewhat less ancient than the
Great Tower, which stands directly upon the primary rock.
Running parallel with this wall of fortification, only i\ feet
from it and at the same depth, there is a wall 2 feet high,
which is likewise built of stones joined with earth.
The room at the greatest depth which I have excavated
is 10 feet high and \\\ feet broad; but it may have been
higher; its length I have not yet ascertained. One of the
compartments of the uppermost houses, below the Temple
of Athena and belonging to the pre-Hellenic period, appears
to have been used as a wine-merchant's cellar or as a maga-
zine, for in it there are nine enormous earthen jars (itCOoi)
of various forms, about 5! feet high and 4! feet across,
their mouths being from 29^ to 35^ inches broad.* Each of
these earthen jars has four handles, 3! inches broad, and
the clay of which they are made has the enormous thick-
ness of 2j inches. Upon the south side of these jars
I found a wall 26 feet in extent and 10 feet high, bunt
of sun-dried bricks, which, however, had become really
* See Plate XI. b. Six of the jars are shown, and a seventh (broken)
lies outside of the cut to the right. The two largest of all are out of
view, on the other side of the wall of the magazine, but one of them is
seen in the view on Plate XI. a, in the left-hand bottom corner.
house-walls which must certainly be older; and these too
show indications of having been exposed to a terrible heat.
In fact, the labyrinth of very ancient house-walls, built one
above another, and found in the depths of the Temple of
Athena erected by Lysimachus, is unique, and presents the
archaeologist with the richest materials for his investigations.
But what is most inexplicable to me about this labyrinth of
walls is a wall of fortification, 1 if feet high, running through
it from W.N.W. to E.S.E. This is likewise built of stone
joined with earth, and is 6 feet broad at the top and 12 feet
broad at the foot: it does not stand directly upon the
primary rock, and was not built till the rock had gradually
become covered with a layer of earth if foot in thickness.
It appears therefore to be somewhat less ancient than the
Great Tower, which stands directly upon the primary rock.
Running parallel with this wall of fortification, only i\ feet
from it and at the same depth, there is a wall 2 feet high,
which is likewise built of stones joined with earth.
The room at the greatest depth which I have excavated
is 10 feet high and \\\ feet broad; but it may have been
higher; its length I have not yet ascertained. One of the
compartments of the uppermost houses, below the Temple
of Athena and belonging to the pre-Hellenic period, appears
to have been used as a wine-merchant's cellar or as a maga-
zine, for in it there are nine enormous earthen jars (itCOoi)
of various forms, about 5! feet high and 4! feet across,
their mouths being from 29^ to 35^ inches broad.* Each of
these earthen jars has four handles, 3! inches broad, and
the clay of which they are made has the enormous thick-
ness of 2j inches. Upon the south side of these jars
I found a wall 26 feet in extent and 10 feet high, bunt
of sun-dried bricks, which, however, had become really
* See Plate XI. b. Six of the jars are shown, and a seventh (broken)
lies outside of the cut to the right. The two largest of all are out of
view, on the other side of the wall of the magazine, but one of them is
seen in the view on Plate XI. a, in the left-hand bottom corner.