Year: 1872

fifteen metres or fifty feet below the summit of the
hill and thirtyfour metres in BREADTH because cer
tain indications In that direction led me to believe
that could find there the temple OF Minerva. At
only one metre below the surface came upon
time Of Lysimachus representing PhGbus Apollo in
female attire, with the disc Of the sun on his head
sh is On ow[ out M
centimetres broad, and must weigh more than ton.
also found there long Greek inscription whi ch
Antonnus Plus. who Is therein called Titus Elius
Hadrianus Antoninus. The slab with this In
scription Is also oflarge dimensions and weighs
upwards OF ton. 1t stood, probably, in tenn.
pie, which, to Judge rom the sculptured figure,
In the hope Of finding beneath this probable site
OF temple some ruins Of the temple OF the time
OF Priam, went on, but was soon led to believe
touching the virgin soil at depth OF fifteen
metres. Instead. therefore, OF continuing this
second platform on the Intended scale l only
opened In It trench eight metres wide and six
deep.


NE FINDS A WALL.


At this part Of the mount the accumulation OF
width for at that distance from the slope came
clay two metres in thickness and three In height,
which, as the layers OF rubbish below it distinctly
show, had been built on the slope. Whether this
wall served as the sub-structure of some Trojan
temple or whether IL was the wall Of circumvalla-
ton which Homer lIliad VII, 452462 attributes to
masses OF great stones which ind In my trench
below the wall convince me that 1t was formerly





feet high this would appear sufficient, since the
site Of the mount Is ITSELF at an angle Of forty to


Below and above this wall find masses of that
splendid black pottery which resembles so much
the Etruscan terracottas and which find here
exclusively In the two inches Immediately above
the virgin soil, and this at depth OF from IA to
16 inches below the surface.


The wall runs from east to west and thus com.
pletely bars my passage. l shall go on with the
trench little ways beyond the wall but on level
with 1t, because cannot clear out the rubbish be-
n fnln anAv
shall leave that labor till next March, for the sea
son Is already advanced.


GREAT FINp-Is IT PART OF PRrAM's TowgRs


Besides my thoughts are now absorbed In an.
other important object In digging the great
trench simultaneously from north and south across
the mouth, came, July ls, upon colossal struc-
thickness and OF perpendicular height OF
metres go feep, built on the primitive rock.
beneath the site Of the temple, except that the
stones are smaller. AS yet have only been abo
to clear so much Of 1t as the breadth OF my cutting
on It's south side, and OF course its top.


This south side, which faces the remainder OF tho
high plateau on which the city stood, Is slightly IN
one metre; the north side, which faces the Acrop-
oils, with the ruins OF its palaces is exactly
perpendicular, but is still buried in the rubbish.
tirely, as by that time my whole canal win be
ready. Just now am excavating TO the right and
nrst, to satisfy the curiosity OF the civilized world
a. well as my own, what II Is and what IL can
mean and, secondly, In order to nnd passage
sloping At an angle OF fourteen degrees, would
bring down with the fury OF mountain torrent on
this noble structure, and injure, perhaps DESTROY
lt-for who can estimate what Its power Of resist.
ance may now beS But the difficulty OF making
such an escape for the Winter rains through the
stone-like rubbish encounter can scarcely be ap-
preciated by one without personal experience OF IT,
II the structure does not exceed 40 metres In
length. think shall dig 1t out In three or four
weeks; but II IL exceeds this. shall make a tun.
mel under the wall and open trench to the north,
cutting so as to send the rain water by the steep
descent OF the north side.


WHAT CAN THIS STRUCTURE HAVE BggNi


The city wall find by measure that the part I
have laid bare is but 81 or 3S metres
nom the western descent from the Acropo-
lis TO the plain and II Is therefore not unlikely that
the structure was tower in the wall, and Il NAV
have been the great tower OF Ium [lliad, vi. 3soj
TO which Andromache went up to scan the plain In
search OF Hector. BY my excavations on the
site OF the temple. l have proved that
the accumulation OF rubbish there exceeds so
metres, and thus IL cannot be surprising il It IA
81 or 3S metres here. If we suppose the tower
stsadspg " tas Yeu edge VI the WeStegR descent