“The eternal Trojan Stone: A notice indicates this block of 20 tons of granite from the Troad calls attention to the fact that Troia was one of the first places in the border area between Asia and Europe where ashlar masonry was used. This at the time in which iron was still unknown (the Bronze Age). The earliest example can be seen in the vestibule of the Magaron (ca. 2500 BC), there are many more among the “well-hewn stones” of the Troia VI citadel and palaces, and also some of the houses in the Lower City of Troia VIIa. Troia was prominent in its time not only in metallurgy (tin plus copper to make bronze), in pottery production (the potter’s wheel) and in its social structure (the Citadel and Lower City), but also in the field of architecture.
This stone was donated to the Troias Stiftung of the University of Tübingen by Dr. Süleyman Bodur, Troas Minerals in the summer of 2002.