Identifier: ilioscitycountry00schl_0 (find matches)
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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rius, and by which Ilium was provided with water fromthe upper part of that river; and last, not least, the vast theatre, capableof seating 5000 spectators, which visitors will see cut in the slope,immediately to the east of Hissarlik ;3—all this testifies to the large size,the wealth, and the magnificence of the town. The marble seats havedisappeared from the theatre; but in a small trench, which I dug in the 10 Sectional Plan IV., z West, and Plan I. (of 2 See Plan II. (of the Hellenic Ilium). One of Troy), z. the quadrangular forts is marked 43, the other 1 Sectional Plan IV., z West and Z East, and 37, which means their height in metres above Plan 1. (of Troy), K, N O, z o, R, Y. the sea. 3 See Plan II. ITS SIZE, WEALTH, AND MAGNIFICENCE. 611 orchestra, I brought to light numerous fragments of marble sculptureswhich testify to its grandeur. As before mentioned, I have sunk on the site of Novum Ilium, outsideof Hissarlik, 20 shafts, the sections and depths of which are accurately
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given on the Plan of the Hellenic Ilium (Plan II.); it will be seen fromthem that the accumulation of the debris, at a short distance to the westand south-west of Hissarlik, is from 5 to 5*30 m. (16 ft. 5 in. to 17 ft. 5 in.),but that more to the south and south-east it falls off to 2 or 2*50 m.(6 ft. 7 in. to 8 ft. 2 in.). The depth of the debris on the plateau above the 612 THE SEVENTH CITY: THE GREEK ILIUM. (Chap. XI. theatre also does not exceed 8 ft. 2 in., and further on to the east itdiminishes still more. These debris abound with fragments of potteryof all epochs, from the foundation of the city hy the Aeolian colonistsdown to its decay in the fourth and its abandonment in the fifth centuryof our era. But I infer this decay and abandonment solely from theabsence of coins later than Constans II., and from the entire absence ofpottery or ruins of the Byzantine period, of which no trace was foundin my 20 shafts. I have no other proofs.4 As already stated, E. Meyer5mentions that C

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