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types. But the pre-eminent feature of the Second Town is 

 the discovery of more than one buried " Treasure " of gold 

 and silver jewellery and vessels, the latter certainly of 

 local manufacture, for the forms closely correspond with 

 characteristic types of the pottery. 



19. The Second Town perished in a general conflagra- 

 tion, and the Third, Fourth and Fifth Towns above it 

 never attained to anything like its magnificence. They 

 mark, however, a gradual advance of civilisation and form a 

 transition, more and more rapid as it proceeds, towards the 

 Sixth Town, a quite distinct and well-marked settlement of 

 " Mykenaean " invaders, in which imported pottery, and 

 native imitations of this, occur alongside of fully developed 

 indigenous forms, which again recall in characteristic details 

 many Central European types. This Sixth Town is the 

 only one which can be even approximately dated chrono- 

 logically ; it is certainly prior to 1000 B.C., and need not be 

 later than 1 300 ; the Fifth and lower settlements must of 

 course necessarily be older than this. 



20. It has been already hinted that the " Treasure of 

 Priam " may belong to a period somewhat later than the 

 Second Town, though not so late as the sixth or 

 " Mykenaean " Town. Whether this be so or not, we 

 have in the jewellery an early example, perhaps a prototype, 

 of the characteristic gold work of the Mykenaean Age ; 

 but if the " Treasure " is contemporary with the layer in 

 which it was found, the time limit for the whole series at 

 Hissarlik must probably be contracted downwards. In 

 any case we must believe that the earliest civilisation of 

 Hissarlik was not so wholly barbarous as appears at first 

 sight. 



21. Imported objects found at Hissarlik indicate a wide 

 range of foreign connections. The fragments of porcelain 

 point to Egypt ; the lapis lazuli axe from a neighbouring 

 site, to Turkestan ; the silver vases probably to the eastern 

 half of Asia Minor ; the types of the bronze implements 

 alike to Cyprus and to the Danube Valley ; and the amber 

 to the shores of the Baltic. This wide commerce does not, 

 of course, imply direct intercourse, but, from its geographical 



