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it, I used to ascribe to the town-chief or king), had remained filled with brick-débris of the second city wall, which had not been removed by the third settlers, and that the many treasures discovered by me there in 1878 and 1879 were contained in this stratum. That the deep mass of brick-débris here belonged to the second city, seems to be proved with certainty by two facts: first, by the non-existence of a door on this side of the edifice H S, and secondly, by the absence of a wall-coating on this side of the house-wall which faces the fortress-wall OZ; for such a coating exists on both sides of all the other walls of the house, nor is it missing on the internal side of its western wall. But a still more weighty proof that all the treasures belong, not to the third, but to the second, the burnt city, is found in the condition of the more than 10,oco objects of which they are composed, for every one of them, even to the smallest gold drop, bears the most evident marks of the fearful incandescence to which it has been exposed. But these marks of heat are still more striking on the bronze weapons than on the gold ornaments. Thus, for example, of the weapons found in the largest gold-treasure, one bronze dagger (see p. 482, No. 813 in Ilios) has been completely curled up in the conflagration; a mass of lance-heads, daggers, and battle-axes (p. 482, No. 815 in Ilios) have been fused together by the intense heat; there are, further, lance-heads fused to battle-axes (p. 476, Nos. 805, 807, in Ilios); and a lance and battle-axe firmly fused to a copper caldron (p. 474, No. 800 in Ilios).
The preserved brick wall (N N) on the east side of the Acropolis is from 3.50 m. to 4 mètres thick, and is still 2.50 m. high; but my architects infer from its thickness that it must have been originally at least 4 mètres high, and they think there cannot be a doubt that the upper wall of the citadel had an equal thickness and height throughout.
The construction of this brick wall may best be re-