Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-18
scHLrEnrANNs LArEsr WORK..
He Digs Up an Immense Palace in the
AcrOpolis at Tiryns.


1t may be interesting to your readers,
says a Nauplia letter, of April 4, to
the AtheRWum, 10 hear something of
the new work now going on at Ii
ryns under the instigatiOn and at the
cost of the indefatigable DIR. Schlie-
mann. l hoped to have gone out with
him this morning, but as he rises at 4:30
a. m, and, after a bath, starts at once
for the works, he benevOlently counter
manded nv instructions to be called in
time to accompany him. Before I O'Clock,
however. | found him on the famous pre-
historic mound with 30 workmen or
women turning up the soil and throwing
it over the boundary wall INTO the pam
below. The Doctor was going from group
to group, inquiring, watching, eXhortlng
his men, and looking for moment at any
piece Of pottery or worked stone which
happened to turn up. Already, at two
opposite sides of the mound (east ana
west). have been found the bases of pill
larson the western side three with two
corner stones making the facade of an
ancient house, the floor OF which is gray
composite akin to a rough mosaic.
Yesterday a DOric capital of very old
styIe made its appearance; the echinus is
very wide in proportion TO the shaft, and
if is sixteen course of fiuting. This de-
termines the style of this house: but its
ace. use, and general plan are as yet un-
determined. DIR. DOrpteld, who was win
me. hopes that in a week or two more de-
finite notions may be attained mere
are. of course. endless fragments OF pot
terv of all those kinds described as
archaic; but the few complete vessels as
vet found have been, unfortunately,
damaged in the digging out. As the east
ern Dillar bases are on a lower level tnan
the western there may have been two sueh
buildings. and there seems little douot
that the surface was arranged IN success
sive terraces.
4 deem shaft has also been sunk to find
the depth of the accumulated earth, but
as vet nothing but fragments OF pottery
have been turned up, with piece OF one
very curious limestone vessel and very
oxidiZed little can, Which guessed TO De
silver, but which is so curlOusly modern
in form and light in substance that MOTH
ing would for a moment save its charac-
ter but the great depth fourteen Ieel) at
which it was found.
Though DIR. Schliemann is not 50 Wen
pleased with his Greek Tor rather Al
banian) wOrkmen here as he was with
those in Troy, and though he calls thls
trifiing affair, as he has only fifty instead
of one hundred and sixty men at Work,
the scene at Tiryns is striking in the eX-
4 IIGIuHs luC hlNS VI boNll MN
men are very handsome. They are dressed
in the CAV Albanian dress, those who are
resting or experimenting having their
soft Woollen cream-white capotes-the
most beautiful overcoat conceivable. The
compilations of the people were mostly
dark, not like the fair Arglves VINO sur
prise the traveller few miles away.
All around are the enchanting views
about the Gulf of Nauplia, perhaps the
most enchanting in Greece, or even IN
Europe. The Alps Of Already stlil nave
their caps and streaks OF snow, though
the sun is very hot and the trees OF the
plain are assuming their summer dress
| The beetling fortress of Nauplla ana It's
| fort islands, where the national MarWood
has his compulsory home, remind one oil
the old DAYS of sieges and surprises, When
the land was barren with war, and not
smiling. as it now is, with peace and
/ nIentv. The narrow ford of blue sea IS
| studded with white sails, and single
! Steamer leaves its track Of curling smoke
! as il rounds the headland to the south.
| All about the great mound and far out
into the valley, gardens of lemon trees,
orange trees, and tall Expresses yarlegate
the deep green of the growing wheat: And
over ali the rich plain of Argos and over
| all the ranks of the piled-up Alps is that
variety of light and shade, showing IN
/ perspective that infinite variety OF out
| line. both OF which are TO be seen IN
| Greece, and in Greece only.