west wall. The former (i) was walled up in later times. The whole structure shows a style of masonry inferior to that of the other buildings of the VI City. Its poorly wrought stones are in striking contrast to the finely polished blocks of the adjacent building, VI E. A horizontal layer of earth, which appears between the layers of stone at the outside of
Fig. 28.Ground Plan of VI E
e f, indicates that a horizontal wooden beam was once built into the masonry. A similar architectural device is seen in the court wall of the palace of Mycenae, as well as in some of the buildings of the II Stratum.
27. VI E.[1]The stately building VI E has a form (fig. 28) similar to the one which we have just discussed, and, like it, was probably a dwelling house.
- ↑ Dörpfeld, Troja und Ilion, pp. 164–169. Cf. Dörpfeld, Troja, 1893, pp. 27–28.
