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INTRODUCTION xxxi
is a different culture. The fortress wall with its gates and
towers is built altogether unlike the walls of the Argive
citadels. The dwelling-houses, too, present an aspect other
than that of the palaces at Tiryns and Mycenae. Of inte-
rior artistic decoration we learn nothing from the houses at
Troy. Wall paintings, such as adorned the Argive castles,
seem to have been foreign to them; at least, not a frag-
ment of fresco has yet been found. Again, it is only in
the interior of a single edifice that we can make out col-
umns ; in the vestibules they appear not to have been em-
ployed; and we have nothing to show how their shafts
and capitals were fashioned. The cornice (Gesimse) of all
buildings must have been of wood; at least we have found
no trace of a stone cornice or coping. The house floors
were formed very simply with clay mortar; lime cement
has been noted only on the great road leading up from
the main gate. Again, the domestic utensils, weapons, and
ornaments, so far as we can judge, appear to have been
more simple than the corresponding objects in use among
the Mycenaeans.
"Whence the Trojan culture springs, Dr. A. Korte, of
Bonn, has recently shown. In the interior of Asia Minor,
in ancient Phrygia, he has found exactly the same gray
pottery which prevails in the sixth stratum at Troy, and
which, in distinction from the imported Mycenaean vases,
we have styled the local Trojan ware. It is, therefore,
probably the Phrygian culture which prevailed at Troy, —
a culture which, indeed, had points of contact with the
Mycenaean culture described in this work but was never-
theless in essential points different from it.
WlLHELM DORPFBLD.
New York,
14 November, 1896.
is a different culture. The fortress wall with its gates and
towers is built altogether unlike the walls of the Argive
citadels. The dwelling-houses, too, present an aspect other
than that of the palaces at Tiryns and Mycenae. Of inte-
rior artistic decoration we learn nothing from the houses at
Troy. Wall paintings, such as adorned the Argive castles,
seem to have been foreign to them; at least, not a frag-
ment of fresco has yet been found. Again, it is only in
the interior of a single edifice that we can make out col-
umns ; in the vestibules they appear not to have been em-
ployed; and we have nothing to show how their shafts
and capitals were fashioned. The cornice (Gesimse) of all
buildings must have been of wood; at least we have found
no trace of a stone cornice or coping. The house floors
were formed very simply with clay mortar; lime cement
has been noted only on the great road leading up from
the main gate. Again, the domestic utensils, weapons, and
ornaments, so far as we can judge, appear to have been
more simple than the corresponding objects in use among
the Mycenaeans.
"Whence the Trojan culture springs, Dr. A. Korte, of
Bonn, has recently shown. In the interior of Asia Minor,
in ancient Phrygia, he has found exactly the same gray
pottery which prevails in the sixth stratum at Troy, and
which, in distinction from the imported Mycenaean vases,
we have styled the local Trojan ware. It is, therefore,
probably the Phrygian culture which prevailed at Troy, —
a culture which, indeed, had points of contact with the
Mycenaean culture described in this work but was never-
theless in essential points different from it.
WlLHELM DORPFBLD.
New York,
14 November, 1896.