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THE MYCENAEAN TROY 369
tower and stately bouses of well-dressed stone. Advanced monochrome
pottery of local fabric, and with it imported Mycenaean vases. The
Homeric Pergamos of Troy. About 1500-1000 B. c.
VII. | Village settlements, one of earlier, the other of later, Hellenic
VIII. j times. Two distinct strata of simple stone houses above the
ruins of the Sixth City. Local monochrome pottery and nearly every
known variety of Greek ceramics. From u. c. 1000 to the Christian era.
IX. Acropolis of the Roman Ilium, with a famous temple of Athena and
splendid marble buildings, Roman pottery and other objects. Marble
inscriptions. Period from the beginning of the Christian era to 500 A. D.
These figures, of course, are estimates only; for the older strata they
have only relative, not absolute, values.
Of the Sixth City we have left only the circuit wall, with a strip inside
it some 40 metres wide. This is not due to the destruction of its core by
Schliemann's earlier excavations, but apparently to Roman hands. Like
other Mycenaean cities, Troy rose in terraces, the summit being at least
7 metres higher than the lowest level within the walls. On this summit
would naturally stand the most imposing structures, as did the palace at
Mycenae. "When this city in turn was converted into a heap of ruins, the
hill resumed a semi-spherical shape, and the people of the seventh and
eighth settlements built their simple houses upon it. But when the
Romans came to build their new Ilium they wanted a different site for
their stately buildings, and this they secured by leveling down and up.
Thus tlte core and summit of Mycenaean Troy was removed to grade up
the lower levels; and we find the mighty Roman foundations of regular
masonry immediately above the simple houses of the fifth stratum. And
thus it is that we have only a narrow band of buildings under the walls
to study.
The circuit wall of this city is still standing on the east, south, and
west, — about 300 metres in all, — while the north wall, which must
have been about 200 metres in length, appears to have been destroyed
by Archaeanax of Mitylene, who employed the stone.thus obtained to
build Sigeion (Strabo xiii. 389).
A comparison of the wall circuit and enclosed area of this city with
those of the Second City and the principal Mycenaean citadels yields the
following results: —
1. Troy (second city) has a circuit of 350 m., area of, 8,000 sq. m.
2. Troy (sixth city) " 500 " » 20,000 .«
3. Tiryns " 700 " " 20,000 «
4. Athenian Acropolis " 700 « " 25,000 "
5. Mycenae " 900 « « 30,000 "
Thus the Sixth City was two and a half times as large as the Second, and
tower and stately bouses of well-dressed stone. Advanced monochrome
pottery of local fabric, and with it imported Mycenaean vases. The
Homeric Pergamos of Troy. About 1500-1000 B. c.
VII. | Village settlements, one of earlier, the other of later, Hellenic
VIII. j times. Two distinct strata of simple stone houses above the
ruins of the Sixth City. Local monochrome pottery and nearly every
known variety of Greek ceramics. From u. c. 1000 to the Christian era.
IX. Acropolis of the Roman Ilium, with a famous temple of Athena and
splendid marble buildings, Roman pottery and other objects. Marble
inscriptions. Period from the beginning of the Christian era to 500 A. D.
These figures, of course, are estimates only; for the older strata they
have only relative, not absolute, values.
Of the Sixth City we have left only the circuit wall, with a strip inside
it some 40 metres wide. This is not due to the destruction of its core by
Schliemann's earlier excavations, but apparently to Roman hands. Like
other Mycenaean cities, Troy rose in terraces, the summit being at least
7 metres higher than the lowest level within the walls. On this summit
would naturally stand the most imposing structures, as did the palace at
Mycenae. "When this city in turn was converted into a heap of ruins, the
hill resumed a semi-spherical shape, and the people of the seventh and
eighth settlements built their simple houses upon it. But when the
Romans came to build their new Ilium they wanted a different site for
their stately buildings, and this they secured by leveling down and up.
Thus tlte core and summit of Mycenaean Troy was removed to grade up
the lower levels; and we find the mighty Roman foundations of regular
masonry immediately above the simple houses of the fifth stratum. And
thus it is that we have only a narrow band of buildings under the walls
to study.
The circuit wall of this city is still standing on the east, south, and
west, — about 300 metres in all, — while the north wall, which must
have been about 200 metres in length, appears to have been destroyed
by Archaeanax of Mitylene, who employed the stone.thus obtained to
build Sigeion (Strabo xiii. 389).
A comparison of the wall circuit and enclosed area of this city with
those of the Second City and the principal Mycenaean citadels yields the
following results: —
1. Troy (second city) has a circuit of 350 m., area of, 8,000 sq. m.
2. Troy (sixth city) " 500 " » 20,000 .«
3. Tiryns " 700 " " 20,000 «
4. Athenian Acropolis " 700 « " 25,000 "
5. Mycenae " 900 « « 30,000 "
Thus the Sixth City was two and a half times as large as the Second, and