gray wheel-made pottery, succeeded abruptly by the second layer, which contains the Hellenic pottery. Nowhere is there any trace of black earth between them, such as we should expect if, after the first settlement, the site had lain deserted for a number of years. We may conclude from this that the place, on being abandoned by the first settlers, was at once, or at least very soon, reoccupied by a Greek colony. Now, as we certainly found no vestige of Hellenic pottery which could claim an earlier date than the fifth century B.C., while the bulk is of the Macedonian time and later, we may with the greatest probability infer, that the coarse heavy gray or black wheel-made pottery was still in use among the first settlers when they abandoned the site in the fifth century B.C.. This we may, therefore, with the greatest probability, regard as its latest or minimum date. Regarding its earliest date I repeat that all the pottery, without exception, is wheel-made, whereas the Lydian pottery of Hissarlik, to which it has some resemblance, is nearly all hand-made; and if, therefore, we take as the latest date of the Lydian settlement the tenth century B.C., we are probably near the mark if we attribute the ancient pottery on the Bali Dagh to the period between the 5th and 9th centuries B.C.; and we must ascribe to the same time the so-called "tumulus of Priam," which I excavated, and in which none but this ancient pottery was found. This chronology is the more likely to be correct, as in the oldest layer of débris on the Bali Dagh there is no trace of the whorls, with or without an incised ornamentation, of which I collected at least twenty-two thousand in the five prehistoric settlements of Troy, and which are not wanting in the Lydian settlement. There were only found three unornamented whorls in the Hellenic layer of débris.
As (to my no small annoyance) I have for a long number of years been exhorted, verbally and by letter, by the adherents of the Troy-Bounarbashi theory, to excavate the marble wash-basins at the springs of Bounarbashi, I
