Identifier: ilioscitycountry1880schl (find matches)
Title: Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890
Subjects: Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
TeTprixvi<^, Trapa Upid/xoio Ovpr/ffiv. TrdvTes bfjLTiyepiis, r)/jLhv vioi ,86 yepoyres. Chap. VII.) THE ROYAL HOUSE. 325 broken bones; with brick-matter mixed with grey earth, and with a magmaof yellow earth and ashes. There are also in these house-walls fragments ofbricks, more or less baked, as well as fragments of large jars supplying o 3 I 3 S = 3 C -^ S 3C g52 o S 2. S-3 re 3 s 5 cr 3.o g- rtJ o • 5* 5era dff a
Text Appearing After Image:
sometimes the place of stones (in the second and third walls). The baseof the walls is composed of small clay cakes, yellow earth, grey or brown o26 THE TEIHD, THE BURNT CITY. (Chap. VII. or black ashes, and fragments of bricks laid in all directions. There arealso large pieces of charcoal, marking the place of the beams of which thefloor seems to have consisted. The coatings of the walls are composed of the same mag/ma as thematter with which the stones are joined. The finest coatings aresmoothed, not with a trowel, but with a sort of whitish-yellow clay-milk,which has left a layer as thick as paper; there are coatings of two orthree such layers. This painting, if we may call it so, follows all thesinuosities of the coating, which itself follows those of the wall. Thisclay-milk has not a uniform colour; it borrows its colour from the groundwhich it covers ; it consequently seems to have been made simply withwater, with which the surface of the coating has repeatedly been washed. The

Note About Images