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separation between the words. I bought it for Lord Elgin, in whose 

 possession it now is. It is not complete, having been broken and 

 defaced towards the conclusion. The following is the copy I took on 

 the spot. It is a decree in honour of iNIetrodorus a physician, for 

 having healed a wound in the neck received by King Antiochus in 

 battle, and it assigns him certain privileges and honours for this 

 service as well as others performed to the Kings Antiochus and 

 Seleucus, and to the town. Unfortunately for the topogi'aphy of 

 this part of the Troad, it does not mention the name of the city. 



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AEAOS0AI,A,ATTilI,KAI,nOAITEIAN, 



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AHTAI. * 



About three miles and a half to the east of Coum Keui, we found 

 an extensive Turkish cemetery, with ruins of a mosque, the minaret 

 of which was still standing. It belongs to the adjoining village of 



* See the latter part of the volume, where an explanation of this and other Greek 

 inscriptions is given. , . 



