82 Dr. Kennepy Barwin’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
of the Greek Nuoa. Yet, granting even this, which, to say the least, is ex- 
tremely problematical, nothing is more certain than the fact that the present 
masters of the country were by no means guided in their appropriation of names 
by identity of site. The Ionian Metropolis affords an instance of this. A frag- 
ment of the Greek name, 7po7roAz, has been transformed into the Turkish Tzr- 
bili (cd 3), and transferred to a village upwards of three miles’ distance from 
the site of the ancient city. 
I may here take occasion also to mention, that it is sometimes as unsafe to 
rely upon ancient inscriptions for the determination of sites, as upon the Turkish 
names. The same village affords an example of this. A fragment of an ancient 
pedestal is yet to be seen in the courtyard of its mosque, in which I could 
discern plainly MHTPONOAITHN. There would be no resisting this combi- 
nation of witnesses, were it not that the ruins of the city of Cybele* yet remain 
to correct their testimony. 
Ibid. page 34, line 14. 
I conclude that this titulus has never been published, as it has found no place 
in the collection of Professor Béckh. In truth, I may be said to have excavated 
in search of it, it lay so concealed in rubbish and underwood. 
Ibid. page 35, line 33. 
This, like many other positions of the same kind, in the comparative geography 
of this region, is to be received with some latitude. To prove the truth of my 
assertion, I transcribe a passage from my Journal, written by me while at Yeni- 
shéhir : 
‘** We arrived at the village ’Ali-Agha- Tchiftlik after about an hour’s ride 
from the guard-station last mentioned, which, independently of its pleasing aspect, 
cannot fail of interesting the traveller by its proximity to some remarkable ruins 
on the rising ground over against it, the Turkish name for which is Yeéran-Has- 
san. These remains occupy nearly the entire area of the eminence, along the 
inferior level of which flows one of the many tributaries of the Mendres, and in 
the same direction winds the road by which we very speedily approached our 
* Vid. Eckhel, Doctr. N. vol. ii. p. 530, a. 
