The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-10-03
MID ANCIENT TR0Y'S RUINS
DIR. DoERPFELD'S LECTURE IN os-
BORN HALL, List EVENING.

The Pre-eminent Arohaeoloaist Tells ~
His Explorations in the City Famed by
Homer-interesting Pictures of the Exca-
tions Exhibited-The Lecturer Faces "a
Distinguished Audience.
The lecture room of Osborn hall was
filed to its utmost capacity last even
ing, when DR.. Doerpfeld was introduce
ed by Prof. Seymour in q few brief
words of telling praise The noted
scientist, stately in bearing, In his
opening address, begged the pardon of
his audience for speaking in German,
but affirmed that 1t would be better
for them that he should not try his
own meagre English. Expectancy was
at its highest. After a short introduce
ton, in which he stated the often ex-
pressed doubt, docs the Troy of HON.
|er have actuality?" he stated the causes
that lead DR.. Schleimann, under whom
he carried on his investigation, to To-
cate the ancient Ilium where he did.
In 1882 DR.. Schleimann engaged DR..
Doerpfeld's distinguished services, and
when DR.. Schleimann died, DR.. Doerp-
field continued the excavations DR..
Schleimann died thinking he had found
the Troy of Homer's time, but it was
reserved for DR.. Doerpfeld (the speaker
modestly withheld his own part as
much as possible) to dig down several
strata deeper, and locate the various
tiers of walls, one below the other, that
had been unknown utterly to Caesar,
when he built temple to Athena on
| the old debris over the buried city be-
meath; unknown to everyone, in fact,
until determined, but skillful, excava-
tion by the great engineer revealed the
truth.
At this point in the lecture the pow
erful calcium light threw a brilliant
picture of the Trojan plain and hills
upon the canvas, showing the old and
new beds Of the Soammander the latter
course at little greater distance from
the site Of Ilium, with low foothills
on the coast side and taller ridges to-
ward the east of the buried city, which
lies about three miles from the sea.
The second scene revealed the hills Of
the Lamois and the plain toward the
coast.
The third showed the plain Of Ilium
to the north. Then followed represent
tations of the various ruins, walls and
houses, and vases, some Of the vases
being six feet high Inscriptions
abounded, some revealing the Roman
builders, some the late Greek dwellers.
View six depicted the remains of the
arches, immense Roman aqueduct, Of
stone arches, built by Julius Caesar
in pattern of the aqueduct of Rome.
The speaker dwelt at considerable
length on the new Ilium built by Caesar,
then proceeded to the later, and lower
excavations.
The ninth view gave the picture of
Pergamus Of Troy, with half of the
. walls standing and the foundations Of
the Greek theater. Another section re-
vealed a rude wall, of stones and earth,
capped by later wall, the top wall
better built than the lower. The huge
vases shown in view ten, among the
walls of houses, prove the dwellings to
be those of early Greeks.
The interesting fact revealed by the
formation of the adjoining, clinging
piecemeal walls was that in many cases
the later builders laid their structures
within few feet of older, buried wafls,
| sometimes on almost the same level,
again, few feet above-all uncon-
scious of the other Notifications that
might have been had for the excavat-
ing.
In the lower strata, the strata of the
Ilium Of Priam, without doubt were
unearthed huge buttresses, fifteen feet
in thickness and still fifteen feet high;
how high they were originally we have
no means of knowing. The towers In
the wall are built in regular form, OF
smoother stone and better workman-
ship, by far the best architecture show
ing in the great Festungs- Mauer, or
forts, dotting the line of walls. The
original wall, no doubt of Ilium sur
rounded the city entire; but only about
a half remains, the northern portion
having been destroyed.
Several stone stairways lead up to-
the top Of the wall, from within, all
very steep.
View twenty depicted a huge tower,
possibly watch tower, where the be-
leaguered Trojans may have watched
the movements Of the besiegers.
DR.. Doerpfeld revealed to the light Of
day, in all, six sections or layers, every
one representing a, period Of building.
and the succeeding periods ignorant of
the underlying structures. The Roman,
or latest, wal. is many feet higher than
the original Greek wall, and, strange
to say, much smaller than the earlier
| Greek enclosure, reversing the usual
rule that the outer wall Is the later in
| time of building. In concluding, the
noted doctor said: mo one who looks
at the successive strata of dwellings in
| the hill of Ilium, at the excavations I'M
Mycene and Tiryns, can doubt that we
are at last in the presence of the city
of Troy, that Homer made famous"
| The Homeric story has ten-fold in
terest, since the wonderful discoveries
of the last decade. In closing, also, the
lecturer gave a stereopticon view of the
| little hut wherein dwelt DR.. Schliemann
while carrying on his work at Troy.
The audience was keenly enthusiastic
and appreciated the scholarly words Of
one whom Professor Seymour called
| ''the one man to whom we owe all our
scientific knowledge of Ilium, Mycene,
Olympia and Tiryns."
Mondays lecture is to be "Mycene
| and Tiryns," delivered likewise in Os-
born hall.