CLAS 2P34 Chapter 1-25: Time Period 1300 1100 BC
5 May 2016
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Right from schliemann"s day, attempts have been made to match the archaeological findings with the ancient stories of troy and the war. For those who believe the war was truth, not legend, the best matches are two: troy vi and troy viia. The inhabitants of troy viia seem to have endured a siege. Houses are packed together by the city walls, and many pithoi, huge storage jars, were sunk into the floors, demonstrating the hoarding of foodstuffs. Some human skeletal remains were discovered, although not many. The level was burned, but eventually rebuilt (troy viib1). The city was grander than troy viia, a more compelling prize for attackers from afar. This level, too, was destroyed, although whether by earthquake or by people or by both is difficult to determine. Datings of occupations and destructions are still debated, and there are no contemporary accounts of the war inhittite or mycenaean texts (the trojans themselves left no written documents).
