Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 409
directly in front of the royalhouse. 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 directly in front of or beside the ScseanGate, the Great Tower, and the great surrounding Wall. Thisis contirmed by the many splendid objects found in its ruins,especially the enormous ro\-ally ornamented vase with the pic-ture of the owl-headed goddess Athena, the tutelary…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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