of the Grasco- Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 135 



The historian then proceeds to an enumeration of the other cities which had 

 shared in the general calamity, as also in the imperial bounty : all had their 

 tributes remitted to them for the time, and deputies of senatorial rank appointed 

 to visit them, and take such measures for their relief as the exigencies of their 

 cases demanded. The Sardians, in particular, exclusively of a temporary remis- 

 sion of their taxes, had a large grant from the imperial treasury. 



My present circumstances forbid more than brief allusions to authorities. I 

 therefore conclude this part of my subject with referring my learned audience to 

 Pliny,* StrabOjf the medals of Tiberius which were struck in commemoration of 

 this event, I and the Marble of Pozzuolo,§ for illustration of the historical 

 document here noticed. 



My road to Ak-Hissar, the Turkish town which occupies the site of the an- 

 cient Thyatira, lay through the battle-field of Cyrus, the Lydian tumuli, the 

 western side of the Gyga;an lake, and the town of Mermera, or Marmora, which 

 some travellers suppose to be the representative of Exusta.|l Whilst amongst 

 those monuments of the Alyattic dynasty, the sepulchral mounds, I did not fail 

 to visit in particular the largest, the tomb of Alyattes, of which Herodotus has 

 left us an account.** The view which presented itself from the summit, of the 

 lovely region beneath, of the long range of the Tmolus, the acropolis of Sardes, 

 the lake of Koloe, and the plain of the Hermus studded with the monuments, 

 in an endless profusion, of the remote age of the Merranadse, was one which will 

 not soon be effaced from my memory. 



Whilst on the summit of the Alyattic tumulus, I recalled to mind, in parti- 

 cular, that part of Herodotus' description, in which mention is made of the five 

 odpoi, or termini, which he affirms to have been placed there, with epigraphs 

 inscribed upon thera,f f specifying the amount of labour which the classes who 

 had been employed in the task of erecting it had severally contributed. My 

 curiosity was accordingly much excited, when I beheld on a narrow platform on 

 the top of the mausoleum, and imbedded in a cavity in the centre thereof, an 



• Hist. Nat. ii, 86, 1. f Vid. xiii. p. 154. Tauchn. 



J Spanheim. de Usu et Pr. Num. Diss. ix. 

 § Vid. Gronov. Dissert, viii. Ernesti, Not. in Tacit, ubi supra. 

 II Vid. Smith, referred to in Mr. Arundell's work, p. 187. •* Vid. i, 98. 



'j"!' Herod, u. s. k»i a-fi yfdfiiiscra iyixiKi\»itr». 

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