ABSTRACT
On 17 June 1873, in the third year of his excavations at Hissarlik, Heinrich Schliemann discovered what he regarded as the ultimate proof that the site he was digging was the famous Troy of Homer’s Iliad:
In excavating this [city] wall further and directly by the side of the Palace of King Priam, I came upon a large copper article of the most remarkable form, which attracted my attention all the more as I thought I saw gold behind it. . . . In order to withdraw the treasure from the greed of my workmen, and to save it for archaeology, I had to be most expeditious, and although it was not yet time for breakfast, I immediately had ‘paidos’ called. . . .
