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 (14589908170)

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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 Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902 Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919 Brugsch, Heinrich, 1827-1894 Ascherson, Paul, 1834-1913 Postolakas, Achilles Burnouf, Emile, 1821-1907 Calvert, Frank Dufield, Alexander James, 1821-90
Subjects: Archaeology
Publisher: New York: Harper & Bros
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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and other sculptured blocks of marble. All these marbles must havebelonged to the Hellenic buildings, the southern wall of which I laid 1873.) GREEK TEMPLE OF ATHENft 29 bare to a distance of 285\ ft.10 At first this wall is composed of smallstones joined with cement, and it rests upon well-hewn blocks of lime-stone ; further on it consists solely of this latter masonry. The directionof the wall, and hence of the whole building, is east south-east. Three inscriptions, which I found among its ruins,11 and one of whichstates that it was set up in the Upov—that is to say, in the temple—leave no doubt that this was the temple of the Ilian Athene, the ttoXl-oO^o? 6ed, for it is only this sanctuary that could have been calledsimply to lepov on account of its size and importance, which surpassedthat of all the other temples of Novum Ilium.