Ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ πύργον ἔβη μέγαν Ἰλίου, οὕνεκ’ ἄκουσεν
Τείρεσθαι Τρῶας, μέγα δὲ κράτος εἶναι Ἀχαιῶν.
“But to the height of Ilion’s topmost tower
Andromache is gone; since tidings came
The Trojan force was overmatched, and great
The Grecian strength.”
[204] Similar rings are shown among the articles of the Treasure ([Chapter XXIII]., [Plate XX]).
[205] Others, even more interesting, were found later ([Chapter XX]., see [p. 279-80]).
[206] This last name was afterwards recalled by Dr. Schliemann, and that of “Ilium” or “Troy” confined to the Hill of Hissarlik. See [Chapter XXIII]., p. 343; and Introduction, p. 18.
[207] Respecting these steps, which are marked No. 6, on [Plan II]., and c on [Plan III]., p. 306, see further in [Chapter XXII]., p. 318, where the idea of an upper storey is rejected.—[Ed.]
[208] The cut represents a vase of this type, with the upper part joined on by Dr. Schliemann, who remarks that it is doubtful whether the owl’s face belongs to this vase, as the Ilian goddess is in no other case represented on vases without the breasts and abdomen. (Description in the Atlas of Photographs.)
[209] See [Plate XXI]., No. 309.
[210] According to Mr. Gladstone’s theory, these masses of masonry, and the tradition ascribing them to Poseidon and Apollo, are signs of Phœnician influence.—[Ed.]
[211] This statement is hardly accurate. The greatest depth of débris discovered by the officers of the Palestine Exploration Fund at Jerusalem was not in the valleys, but on the Eastern slope of Mount Moriah. The accumulation reached from the foot of the wall down the slope to the bed of the Kedron, and beyond it some distance up the slope of the Mount of Olives. The usual depth at the wall was 60 or 70 feet, but at the north end it reached as much as 120, owing to the descent of the original ground at that spot. The masons’ marks on the lowest courses of the stones, reached by sinking shafts through these great depths, seemed to show a date nearer that of Solomon than of Titus.—[Ed.]
[212] We leave this, like other such passages, as landmarks of the rapid progress made in the discoveries opened up by Dr. Schliemann.—[Ed.]