2.50 m., and had found large quantities of most ancient pottery, similar to that of the first and second cities of Hissarlik; some perforated balls of serpentine, of which I represent one under No. 135; a number of excellent axes of
diorite; large masses of rude stone hammers, corn-bruisers, saddle-querns, and other interesting things, among which was the pretty bronze knife which I represent here under No. 136; at its lower end are preserved the heads of the nails with which the wooden handle was fastened on.
I further represent here, under No. 136a, the fragment of a lustrous black vase with a handle of a very curious form.
At a depth of 150 m. we struck a layer of slightly baked bricks, mixed with straw, very similar to the bricks found in the second and third cities of Hissarlik.
The pottery with which the tumulus and the gardens around it are strewn, and which also predominates among the terra-cottas in the hill, is most decidedly identical with that of the first city of Troy, and proves with certainty
