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coëval with Troy!
- Long duration of the second settlers
- Their Aryan descent proved by Aryan symbols
- Various forms of their pottery
- Vases in the form of animals
- The whorls of this stratum
- Their interesting devices
- Copper weapons and implements, and moulds for casting them
- Terra-cotta seals
- Bracelets and ear-rings, of silver, gold, and electrum
- Pins, &c., of ivory and bone
- Fragments of a lyre
- Various objects.
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- The third stratum: the remains of an Aryan race
- Hardly a trace of metal
- Structure of their houses
- Their stone implements and terra-cottas coarser
- Various forms of pottery
- Remarkable terra-cotta balls with astronomical and religious symbols
- Whorls
- Stone weapons
- Whetstones
- Hammers and instruments of diorite
- A well belonging to this people
- This third town destroyed with its people.
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- The fourth settlers: comparatively savage, but still of Aryan race
- Whorls with like emblems, but of a degenerate form
- Their pottery inferior, but with some curious forms
- Idols of Athena
- Articles of copper
- Few stones
- Charred remains, indicating wooden buildings
- Stone weights, handmills, and knives and saws of flint
- With this people the pre-Hellenic ages end
- The stone buildings and painted and plain terra-cottas of Greek Ilium
- Date of the Greek colony
- Signs that the old. inhabitants were not extirpated
- The whorls of very coarse clay and patterns
- Well, and jars for water and wine
- Proofs of the regular succession of nations on the hill
- Reply to the arguments of M. Nikolaïdes for the site at Bunarbashi
- The Simoïs, Thymbrius, and Scamander
- The tomb of Ajax at In-Tépé
- Remains in it
- Temple of Ajax and town of Aianteum
- Tomb of Achilles and town of Achilleum
- Tombs of Patroclus and Antilochus
- The Greek camp
- The tomb of Batiea or Myrina
- Further discussion of the site
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CHAPTER XI.
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| On the Hill of Hissarlik, July 13th, 1872.
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- Increase of men and machinery and cost on the works: but slow progress
- Continued hurricane on "the windy Ilium" (Ίλιος ήνεμόεσσα)
- The great platform proves too high
- New cutting
- Excavation of the temple
- Objects found
- Greek statuettes in terra-cotta
- Many whorls with 卍 and suns
- Wheel-shaped whorls with simple patterns in the lowest strata
- Terra-cotta balls with suns and stars
- Use of the whorls as amulets or coins discussed
- Little bowls, probably lamps
- Other articles of pottery
- Funnels
- A terra-cotta bell
- Various beautiful terra-cottas
- Attempts at forgery by the workmen
- Mode of naming the men
- The springs in front of Ilium
- Question of Homer's hot and cold spring
- Course of the Simoïs
- The tomb of Batiea or Myrina identified with the Pacha Tépé
- Theatre of Lysimachus
- Heat and wind
- Plague of insects and scorpions
- Konstantinos Kolobos, a native genius without feet
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CHAPTER XII.
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| Pergamus of Troy, August 4th, 1872.
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- Discovery of an ancient wall on the northern slope
- Discovery of a Tower on the south side
- Its position and construction
- It is Homer's Great
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