Trilvnc Extras Lecture and Letter Scries. 



almost endless variety of decorative lines, many of 

 \vhich seem to Lave au emblematic character. 



TEKRA-COTTA DISKS. 



The Two Upper, Trojan the Lower, Pre-Historie. 

 At the depth of fniin 23 to 33 feet the relics again 

 chanire. Having already reached the stone period, 



as he M.I a in ned, Schliemann was amazed to find be- 

 low it weapons of pure copper of unusually elegant 

 form . The vases, ui-ns, and drinking vessels were 

 in t only quite 01 iL'inal in de.iign but very beautiful, 

 brilliant, red, yellow, green or black in color, but 

 without in iia:iieiital designs. At the first-named 

 d( -|ith i-':: feet) the .bouses were of large sun-dried 

 tiles, with door-sills of stone, but 10 feet deeper they 

 Vfdrv wholly of enormous blocks of stone, without 

 jnortar. In short, the grade of civilization exhibited 

 by the remains increased as the excavation reached 

 an earlier age. This unexpected discovery only in- 

 crea-ed iln- desire to penetrate to the lowest histori- 

 cal stratum, and there find, perhaps, some engraved 

 relics of the lost Ilium. 



On tin- 1st of April, 1S72, Schliemann, accompanied 

 by his wife as usual, readied theTroacl, and resumed 

 <>pei -a! imis with a force of 100 workmen. lie brought 

 \vithhimtwooverseers, furnished by Mr. Latham, 

 direct, ir of i he railway from the Pine us to At lit us, and 

 M. Laurent, a French engineer, who made a careful 

 survey of the localities. Tlio expenses thus assumed 

 for the excavations amounted to something more 

 than $1,000 per month, omit I ing tho Greek holi- 

 days twhirh, added to the .Sundays, make 147 

 idle days in the years), and estimating the waires of 

 tho common laborer at, about 35 cents per day. 1 

 can only yivr. a hasty outline of the progress of the 

 ie -cardies. Interesting as it is, from first to last, 

 the mass of details would only confuse the reader who 

 is simply desirous of knowing how Troy was found 

 and what Mas found there. Schliemann beiran by 

 laying out tho plan of ;i new cut, 4Gi feet deep, ;uid 

 233 feet (English) broad, t hinu^li the upper and lower 

 plateaux, including therein his cut of 1ST1. The 



engineer calculated tkat the ."v.onnt. of debris to he 

 removed would laeaauro 78.;"l"> cubic met, 'is about 

 90,000 cubic yards all of which it was necessary to 



move to the steep northern declivity and shoot npon 

 the plain below. At the proposed depth it was sup- 

 posed [hai i .ie bed-rock or at least the original soil 

 would lie reached. 



On beginning to enlarge and deepen the excava- 

 tion of the former year, tho soil was found to bo 

 su aiming with small poisonous adders, called 

 .Int '< linn l>y tie,- people, b. cans th"ir bite is said to 

 produce death before i !u> going down of the sun. 

 Finding that the workmen handled iln-m with im- 

 punity, and even were bitten without any results, 

 >cliliemann discovered that, they had prepared 

 themselves by drinking freely of a dec >ction of 

 " snake-root," which trmw.s upon the plain. Ho 

 judged it prudent to pivpa. e himself against da::t:''T 

 by using the same antidote. Tho discoveries made 

 during the first three weeks, when a depth of 48 

 feet was reached without iindinir the boMoai of tho 

 ruins, were chieflv remarkable for th-iv indications 

 of a much earlier civilixatioii than is ascribed M 

 Troy. Tho figure of the owl-headed. Minerva, on 

 vases and other ornaments, became so [i>qnent that 

 Schliemann saw therein a certain syi.iv>ol of tho 

 Trojan goddess. He insist (! that the tltfO- (ilaii1:<ri>is 

 At'iciic of Homer means, correctly trau.sia'ied. "th) 

 goddess Athene with tho owl's face.'' and drew a 

 uewfaithin his theory from tins inter, UVM: imi. 

 With regard to the jidmitive symbols ol' tlie orig- 

 inal Aryan race which he discovered, I will luertion 

 them after iiuishiiu' the history of tha exploration. 



v.\si: WITH TTIR ov,*r.-i!r.vi>rn MIXI ::VA or- TROT. 

 The owl-face on this vase is not to be mistaken. 



The circles below represent, the biva-.ts, ruddy hint- 

 ing at Imi h bird and goddess, 'u ouo. This emblem 

 is repeated, not onlv on pol tery, but on the pendant* 

 of the golden ear-drops and diadems whict) were 

 afterward found ill the so-called House rf i'riam. 



