New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-03-02

VASE WITH THE OwL-HEADED MINERVA OF TROY
The owl-face on this vase is not to be mistaken.
The circles below represent the breasts rudey hint
ing at both bird and goddess, in one This emblem
il repeated not only pottery but on the pendants
of the golden ear-drops and dIadems which were
afterward found in the so-called House of Priam
By May. Schiemauu had 100 laborers employed,
and divided the force. placing a part OF the men
under the charge of Parian Greek, named Photidas.
who had worked seven years in the gold mines of
Australia. and understood tunneng. The great cut
through the plateau was now driven from both ends
but the difficulty and danger arising from the masses
of crumbing earth on either side greatly delayed
the undertaking. Photidas and one of the men
vera huried Inv the slide of huge mass, but were
fortunately saved by wooden props and dug ont
before they were suffocatcd. The eastern part of
the plateau belongs 10 an Engishman, Mr.. Calvert,
who has large farm on the site OF the ancient
Thymbria and Schliemann made an agreement with
him TO sink another excavation on the eastern side
of the great cut At the very beginning of this new
work Doric trigyph was discovered, with bas-
relief nearly yard square in the interspace repre-
senting the SunGod driving his four-horse chariot
This piece OF art certainly of the age OF Lyslmaehus,
is purely Greek and therefore purely beautiful The
horses resemble those the trIeze OF the Athenian
PartheuOn.
side of the mound Schliemann determined to run an
obqne ditch $50 feet wide at the top, and half that
breadth at the bottom, To intersect the main cut
In proportion az he advanced, be was struck with
the fact that the remains of massive cut-stUne
houses copper weapons vases of elegant form and
rare and curious symbolcal figures ceased suddenly
al the depth of about IS feet while, below that
depth 10 the primeyal, undisturbed earth, at 4j
TO A. feet new and apparently much Older class Of
relics was found The result had been attained
the previous year. in the spots where greater than
the average depth had been reached so, now, in
stead of breaking up these ancient walls and re-
moving them. the explorer decided TO ascertain
their extent and character. By the end of July
wall six feet thick and nine feet high was diseov-
cred at a depth of AZ feet on the northern side of
the plateau aud tower, 40 feet IN diameter, based
on the bedrock on the southern. Twenty feet of
the tower were still remaining, and the mass of
loose blocks scattered around II indicated much
greater original hight. Inasmuch "a both these
massive rrins on opposite sides of the mound, evil
IDENTIFY belonged to the period and To the walls
of houses occupying plane connecting them 1t was
clear that an important city, inhabited by highly
civilized people stood-not upon the original soil,
huffman the rubbish of "a still earlier settlement
xhose remains were IA or IS feet in depth below
il. IL was only by degrees. however that Sche-
mann convinced himself that the masonry be-
Ionued TO the Troy of Homer which, itself, must
have arisen upon the ruins of some prehistoric
capital of whose people can only say that they
| belonged to the Aryan race.
Until the l4th Of August, period OF four months