214 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
nature of the ground can scarcely be deemed 
extraordinary, and Homer says that even 
before his time they had been levelled by 
inundations of the rivers. The great tomb 
of Ajax is still to be seen crowning the sum- 
mit of Rheeteum: it is a noble object and 
subject to fewer learned doubts than any other 
Homeric monument in the Troad. 
There are two tumuli standing side by side 
on the projecting Shore of Sigeum, which 
have for 2000 years been called the tombs of 
Achilles and Patroclus. Strabo mentions a 
third which he allots to Antilochus. Res- 
pecting the smaller of the two tumuli at least, 
we must be allowed to express our doubts of 
its being properly designated, for both in 
the Iliad and Odyssey it is distinctly stated, 
that the ashes of Achillesand Patroclus were 
placed in the same urn, and one tumulus 
raised over it. An ambiguity in the original 
prevents its being exactly ascertained whether 
the ashes of Antilochus were placed in a se- 
parate urn, or only in a separate division or 
compartment of that which contained the 
ashes of Achilles and Patroclus. Cowper 
translates the passage in the former sense, 
and says, 
“‘ Each urn we compassed with a noble tomb 
‘On a tall promontory shooting far 
