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)

TROY AND ITS REMAINS.

[Chap. XXII.

it was the grandest building in Troy; nay, that it must
have been the Palace op Priam.* I am having an accurate
plan made, so far as I can, of the portion that has been
laid bare; I cannot, however, bring to light the whole of
it, for in order to do this I should have to pull down both
my stone and my wooden house, beneath which it extends;
and even if I did pull down my own houses, I should still
be unable to make a complete plan of the house till I had

Plan III.—The Tower and the Soean Gate.
a a. The Great Tower of Ilium, i. Depression to shelter archers, c. Steps, d. The Double Sera"
Gate. e. Steep paved road leading to the Plain. / The City Wall, g. Place where the Treasure
was found, h h. The Palace of Priam.

removed the building which stands upon it, and this I cannot
at once make up my mind to do.

Anyone may convince himself that the elevation, upon
which stands the Palace of King Priam above the Scaean

* This edifice, now first laid open from beneath the ashes which
covered it in the burning of the city, was found by Dr. Schliemann m
the very state to which, in Homer, Agamemnon threatens to reduce it ■
" The house of Priam blackened with fire" (Iliad, II. 414, 4X5) :

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