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Title: Ilios; the city and country of the Trojans. The results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902 Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919 Brugsch, Heinrich, 1827-1894 Ascherson, Paul, 1834-1913 Postolakas, Achilles Burnouf, Emile, 1821-1907 Calvert, Frank Dufield, Alexander James, 1821-90
Subjects: Archaeology
Publisher: New York: Harper & Bros
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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mixed with thoroughly-burnt and often partly-vitrified fragments of bricksand stones. Above this thick layer of debris I came upon the ruins ofa large building composed of stones cemented with earth, of which I only
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36 NARRATIVE OF WORK AT TROY. (InTKOD. No. 11. No. 12. <os. 11, 12. Ct.pperBolts; lound exactlyin the middle (No. 11)of the first (No. 12)of the second Gates. parapets.10 Proceeding thus in a north-easterly direction, I brought tolight two large gateways, standing 20 ft. apart, and in each of them along copper bolt, which had no doubt served to fastenthe wooden wings of the gates, and of which I givedrawings. The first gateway is 12J ft. wide, and isformed by two projections of the side-wall, one of whichstands out to a distance of 2k ft., the other to a distanceof 2) ft. ; both are ft. high and 3; ft. broad. Thepavement of large flags ends at the first gate, whence tothe second gate—for a distance of 20 ft.—the street isvery roughly paved with large unhewn stones.1 Thepavement has probably become uneven through the fallof the walls of the great tower, which must once havecrowned the Gates, and of whose existence the massesof calcined rubbish, from 7 to 10 ft. deep, which cover

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