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342 TROY AND ITS REMAINS. [Chap. XXIII.
in and drawing off the liquid. There were also found
upon the wall of Troy, if feet below the place where
the Treasure was discovered, three silver dishes ((£ia\cu),
two of which were broken to pieces in digging down the
No. 284. Large Silver Vase found in the House of Priam (8 M.).
dibris ; they can, however, be repaired, as I have all the
pieces.* These dishes seem to have belonged to the
Treasure, and the fact of the latter having otherwise escaped
our pickaxes is due to the above-mentioned large copper
vessels which projected, so that I could cut everything out
of the hard debris by means of a knife.
* These silver (l>id\ou, as shown in the photographs, are too much
battered to be worth engraving; but we give a very fine large silver
vase, which was found in a room of the Palace.—[Ed.]
in and drawing off the liquid. There were also found
upon the wall of Troy, if feet below the place where
the Treasure was discovered, three silver dishes ((£ia\cu),
two of which were broken to pieces in digging down the
No. 284. Large Silver Vase found in the House of Priam (8 M.).
dibris ; they can, however, be repaired, as I have all the
pieces.* These dishes seem to have belonged to the
Treasure, and the fact of the latter having otherwise escaped
our pickaxes is due to the above-mentioned large copper
vessels which projected, so that I could cut everything out
of the hard debris by means of a knife.
* These silver (l>id\ou, as shown in the photographs, are too much
battered to be worth engraving; but we give a very fine large silver
vase, which was found in a room of the Palace.—[Ed.]