As in the nine other " heroic tombs " explored by me, I
found here no vestige of either bones or charcoal, and no
trace of a burial. Like all the others, therefore, this is a
mere cenotaph or memorial.
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CHAPTER VII.
Other Explorations in the Troad.
§ /. The Ancient Town on th» Bali Dagh. — I also
most carefully explored with my architects the site of the
small town situated on the mount just named, immediately
to the south and south-east of the " tumulus of Priam,"
which I hold with Mr. Calvert to be the ancient city of
Gergis, and which for nearly a century has had the
undeserved honour of being considered as the real site of
Troy. Nothing is visible above ground of the wall of



Ho. 137.— Wall of Ibe fail and oMot tpoch.
the lower city; but its northern part seems to be buried
in a far extending low elevation of the ground. The site of
the lower city is indicated by a number of house-founda-
tions, which peep out from the ground, and by very
numerous fragments of Hellenic pottery. The site is
crowned at its south and south-eastern extremity by a
small Acropolis, which is about 200 metres long by 100
metres broad, and these also are approximately the dimen-
sions of the lower town. In this citadel the late Austrian



SI.] WALLS ON THE BALI DAGH. 265

Consul, J. G. von Hahn, of Syra, made some excavations
in the spring of 1864, in company with the famous astro-
nomer Dr. Julius Schmidt, and the architect Ernest Ziller
of Athens. The altitude of the Acropolis \s, according to
Dr. Julius Schmidt's measurement, 142 m. They brought



. i]g.— Will of ihe fini lud sldeu epoch.
