J. g. von hahn's report of his excavations at balli dağ in 1864: The finlay translation

The Annual of the British School at Athens

Volumn 92, Issue , 1997, Pages 169-189

  Traill, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (43)

1. For further details, see the article in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, x. 366-9.
2. Schmidt anticipated him with a brief account of the excavations published in 1864: ‘Dr v. Hahn's Ausgrabungen im Gebiete von Troja. Sendschreiben an Herrn Prof. Welcker in Bonn’, Rh.M. n.s. 19 (1864), 591-601.
3. Finlay's translation is preserved among the Finlay Papers in the British School of Achaeology at Athens. I am grateful to the Director, Professor Richard Tomlinson, for permission to publish it.
4. For further information on most of these figures, consult the index to J. M. Cook, The Troad (Oxford, 1973). G. von Eckenbrecher, W. Gell, H. N. Ulrichs, and P. W. Forchhammer, all mentioned by von Hahn, are also discussed by Cook. On Calvert, see also M. Robinson, ‘Pioneer, Scholar, and Victim: An Appreciation of Frank Calvert (1828-1908)’, Anat. Stud. 44 (1994) 153-6810.2307/3642989, ‘Frank Calvert and the Discovery of Troia’, Studia Troica 5 (1995), 323 41, and Allen (Finlay's translation is preserved among the Finlay Papers in the British School of Achaeology at Athens. n. 1).
5. For a moderm parallel compare the humorous, but nonetheless semi-official, designation of the pinnacle in squares E4/5 at Troy as ‘Mansfeld-Tepe’; see Studia Troica, 2 (1992), 23.
6. See note 1 above. Calvert's article was presented on 5 Feb. 1864: see Allen (n. 1) 389-90, n. 62. Cook, however, on the basis of coin finds, has identified Karincali as the site of Gergis; see his Troad, 347-50.
7. For instance, in the discussion of the Curtius Steps near the beginning of the second letter, Finlay's translation, reflecting von Hahn's original version, reads: ‘None of us remembers having seen any similar ancient construction and from the style of the masonry we place it among the best remains of ancient building which are known.’ In the margin, however, Finlay pointed out a parallel in the recently excavated Theatre of Dionysus in Athens. In the published German version von Hahn omitted the sentence ‘None of us remembers. ’ and substituted the reference to the similar construction in the Theatre of Dionysus.
8. See Fig. 2.
9. Fig. 1 b Reyer Blocks {Reyer-Quadern} On the naming of the different parts of the acropolis, see the opening of the following letter.
10. Fig. 1 d-e Prokesch Bastion {Prokesch-Bastion}.
11. Fig. 1 c Reyer Passage {Reyer-Gang} drawing on Fig. 4; see also pp. 180-1
12. Fig. 1 g Spratt Terrace {Spratt-Terrasse}.
13. J. G. von Hahn, Albanesuche Studien I, 121.
14. Fig. 1 f.
15. Such shelving foundations are still found today in many parts of Greece, even in plains, particularly where the penetration of water under the wall must be guarded against.
16. Fig. 1 h Leake Wall {Leake-Mauer}
17. Fig. 1 i-p Mauduit Wall {Mauduit-Mauer}.
18. Fig. 1 v Finlay Polygonals {Finlay-Polygone} sketch on Fig. 3.
19. Fig. 1 w Hahn Corner {Hahn-Eck}; sketch on Fig. 3.
20. Fig. 1 x.
21. Fig. 1 u Ziller Wall {Ziller-Mauer}.
22. Fig. 1 dd Lechevalier Square {Lechevalier-Viereck}; see also p. 181 below.
23. The square blocks of the square building on the summit of the acropolis described above were quarried on the spot. The two large corner stones are of white stone and consequently have been brought from a distance.
24. Fig. 1. Acropolis von Pergamos.
25. See p. 177 above and Fig. 3.
26. Sketch on Fig. 3.
27. See pp. 175-6 above.
28. See p. 175 above and Fig. 4.
29. See pp. 177-9 above.
30. Sketch on Fig. 4.
31. The remarks of Stephanus in the previous note may be connected with the Lechevalier Square, the contiguous oblong and the female figurine.
32. The Mendere is the chief river of the Troad. The length of its course exceeds 7 German miles (33.6 km), the breadth of its river-bed in the lower reaches, 200-300 feet. Its drainage system extends over one third of the range of Mt Ida and the water that it carries from there in winter converts the plain into a lake. In contrast, the springs from whose immediate confluence the stream of Bunarbashi (Bunarbashi-Su) is formed, never cause a significant rise in the stream, and the run-off from the northern slope of the chain of hills that borders the south end of the plain―a drainage area of at most four English miles broad by two long―can cause the stream to flood its banks only in the event of heavy thunderstorms and then only for a few hours.
33. {F. G.} Welcker, Kleine Schriften, II, 60.
34. Il. 21.544 ff.
35. Strabo, 598 {= 13.1.35}, mentions a sanctuary of Apollo Thymbrius at the junction of the river Thymbrius (today's Kemer) with the Scamander. If Apollo, in the guise of Agenor (whom he has safely spirited away) lures Achilles as far as the Scamander (21.603), I do not think it improbable that he leads him to the place where his sanctuary either existed in the time of Homer or was later built in accordance with this passage of the Iliad. Achilles would therefore have pursued Apollo not quite two English miles in a northeasterly direction and would have returned from the northeast towards the Scaean Gate, thus forcing Hector to flee westwards towards the springs.
36. Il. 22. 162 ff.
37. Welcker {n. 27 above} suspects that this plain is the Idaean field mentioned by Agenor.
38. On the hill Dedé on the left bank of the Mendere and on the south slope of the plateau whose northern point it forms, we found some slight remnants of ancient vases. Also to be found on the hill Dedé is the inscription composed of five unknown letters, of which Spratt gives a faithful copy as a vignette in his map of Troy.
39. To judge from the style of the numerous shafts of columns and other architectural fragments in the village of Bunarbashi, they were probably brought from New Ilium, the general quarry of the Troad.
40. The existing strata of the rock have so striking a resemblance to the substructions of walls that although we were familiar with this peculiarity, in several places we were so much in doubt as to feel it necessary to make a careful examination of the spot. It is not therefore astonishing if ancient poets considered them to be the remnants of walls constructed by the gods. I would nevertheless restrict this observation to the two sides of the town wall, which, according to the supposition of the Iliad (for there is no express indication), ran down from the Pergamus to the plain on its north side. That the remains of a ruined city-gate between the springs and the Mendere were still in evidence at the time of the poet and that these ruins were meant by the poet when he spoke of the Scaean gate appears to us more probable than the contrary. We consider therefore the future discovery of its foundation to be not impossible.
41. This opinion rests principally on the following propositions
42. I agree with Curtius that the oldest historical settlements of the Greeks concerning which we have any evidence are in the coastal area of Asia Minor; see {Ernst} Curtius, Ionier vor der ionischen Wanderung {Berlin, 1855)
43. {On Jacob Bryant's contributions to the debate about the site of Troy, see A. C. Lascarides, The Search for Troy (Bloomington, Ind., 1977) 38, 41 2.}