Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 421
-alhouse. That this house is really the kings palace seems evidentfrom its size, from the thickness of its stone walls, in contrast tothose of the other houses of the town, which are built almostexclusively of unburned bricks, and from its imposing situation 394 TROY. … upon an artiticial hill directl} in front of or beside the ScaeanGate, the Great Tower, and the great surrounding Wall. Thisis confirmed by the many splendid objects found in its ruins,especially the enormous royally ornamented vase with the pic-ture of the owl-headed goddess Athena, the tutelar}…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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