580 ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTION. 



The hills near Tchiblak probably mark the site of the Pagus 

 Iliensium and the Callicolone of Strabo, but do not agree with 

 Homer's position of Troy- 



' The springs of Bounarbachi are warm springs, but tradition only 

 makes one of them warm, and Homer might adopt it. They were pro- 

 bably the OIAI nnrAI ; and if so, near the Scoean gate. . ; ;■■■ 



The source of Mendere is in Gargarus, and so was that of Simois ; 

 the position of that of the Scamander is no where mentioned, unless 

 the two fountains near Troy were the sources. 



The UiSiov ^D.viiov was behind Troy in the way to Ida. 



Troy stood at a considerable distance from Ida, properly so called, 

 Tr,\cQe.v \v TTiSiu. The Acropolis stood on a I'ock. Odyss. 507. The 

 situation of Bounarbachi has nothing irreconcilable with these sup- 

 positions ; it is on a low elevation above the Scamandrian plain, 

 backed by higher mountains. Homer describes such a situation by 

 the epithet oip^u^eo-o-a. .■: , i 



REMARKS 



ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTION BROUGHT FROM ATHENS, 



AND NOW PRESERVED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 

 •'• " : [BY MR. WILKINS.] 



In the annexed inscription, which is six years older than the date of 

 the archonship of Euclid, the H occurs with the power of an aspirate ; 

 instead of T and H, we have OE and XS respectively ; and for the 

 diphthong OT, O alone is written, as well in the genitive case of the 

 singular number, and the accusative of the plural ; as in the words 

 BOTAHI and OTZ ; the diphthong is, however, retained in the first 



