must assure the reader that nothing of the kind exists, and that my architects and I could discover at those springs only one block which had been worked by the hand of man. It is a Doric corona-block of white marble, on which the women now do their washing: the campanas (or guttae) are still visible on it; it must certainly have been brought thither from Ilium.
§ II. Eski Hissarlik.—I also explored the ruins of the ancient town called Eski Hissarlik (old fortress), which is situated on the rock on the eastern bank of the Scamander. opposite the Bali Dagh, and only separated from it by a few hundred yards.[1] The Acropolis, the walls of which are preserved almost in their entire circuit to a height of several mètres, and are only covered by the fallen upper parts of the wall, was situated on the top of the rock, at an altitude of 153 m.: whilst the lower town, which is marked by numerous house-foundations, extended on its northern and eastern slope. Immediately in front of the lower town is a tumulus of very small stones, which has lost its conical shape, and seems to have been explored by some traveller. As the Acropolis as well as the lower city are built in slopes, the earth and the remains of human industry have naturally been washed away by the rains, and it so happens that the accumulation of débris is here even much more insignificant than on the Bali Dagh; the bare rock peeps out in many places, and, wherever we excavated, the depth of the débris did not exceed from 0.50 m. to 0.70 m. We found there nothing else but the coarse heavy slightly-baked wheel-made pottery of the first epoch of the Bali Dagh. Both fortresses, Eski Hissarlik and Bali Dagh, which are only separated from each other by a few hundred yards, must—as their identical pottery proves—have existed simultaneously, probably from the 9th to the 5th centuries B.C.: they seem to
- ↑ See the large Map of the Troad.
