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[702] ἀγκῶνος, either the salient angle of the tower itself, or the re-entering angle where the tower abutted on the main wall. Or the reference may be to a construction such as that of the walls at Hissarlik, where the lower part is on a comparatively easy slope, the upper vertical; the angle where the two joined may be the “ἀγκών”.

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