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In the course of the 15th century a new citadel arises, with a further circuit of walls. This is the VI city, not recognised by Schliemann, after his death excavated by Dörpfeld, and identified with Homeric T. = Typical Mycenaean layout. Strong weathering of the ruins & Mycenaean sherds suggest a considerable duration (1500 - 1200 B.C.). Old Trojan pottery lives on. - Survives in VII city.
VII [city] poor period, by sherds roughly in time dated 1200-700. Male humped-ware only in this layer. (attributed by H. Schmidt to the Cimmerians - invasion in the 8th cent. attributed. But contested.
The T. II & VI must, besides the citadel, on the S.E. adjoining plateau have also contained an extensive city (like Tiryns), still unexcavated.) likewise necropolises. —
C. W. Blegen Excavations at Troy 1932, AJA 1932, p. 431 et suiv. 1st season 1932 p. 432 : 1) Object of the fouille: fresh & thorough test of the stratific. 2) How the successive "cities" fit into general scheme of. new material of Greece, Crete, Macedonia etc. 3) Ceramic sequence from beg. to end of Troja. 4) Center of traffic, strateg. pos. A meticulous re-examination of the stratified layers was consequently the principal object :
Also system. search for prehist. tombs by side explor. of whole dist. about Troy, second obj.
Margin right, written sideways: B. C. In thus lowering by some 600 years the implied date for Troy II being 1600-1450
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain