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tive situation of this Hill and Palaio Callifat, or Old Callifat, where 

 New Ilium stood ; as will hereafter be proved. Or may it b. 

 considered the eminence described by Strabo as the beautiful Co- 

 lone, five stadia in circumference, near which Simo'i's Aowed; 

 and Tchiblack, the Pagus Ilieniium ? It was rather more than a 

 mile distant from the village of the Ilieaus, and stood above it ; ex. 

 actly as this hill is situated with regard to Tchiblack. 



It will now be curious to observe, whether an inscription we 

 discovered here does not connect itself with these inquiries. It 

 \vas found upon the fluted marble shaft of a Doric pillar two feet 

 in diameter ; so constructed, as to contain a Cippus, or inscribed 

 slab, upon one side of it. 



The inscription records the consecration of a Stoa, and all things 

 belonging to it, to Tiberius Claudius Caesar Germanicus, the em- 

 peror, and to Julia Augusta A^rippina, his wife, and their chil- 

 dren, and to Minerva of Ilium. The reason why the emperor 

 Claudius and his children were honoured by the IHenses, is given 

 by Suetonius, and Tacitus. Eckhel mentions, I know not on 

 what authority, a fane consecrated to the Iluan Minerva, as hav- 

 ing existed in the Pagus lliensium, which Alexander adorned after 

 his victory at Granicus. Arrian states merely the offerings to 

 Minerva of Ilium, making no mention of the fane ; but Strabo, 

 who expressly alludes to the temple, places it in the Iliensian city. 

 But whence originated the sanctity of this remarkable spot, still 

 shaded by a grove of venerable oaks, beneath whose branches a 

 multitude of votive oflu rings yet entirely cover the summit of the 

 hill? An inscription commemorating the pious tribute of a people 

 in erecting a portico to the family of Claudius Caesar and the Ilean 

 Minerva, can only be referred to the inhabitants of that district 

 of Troas who were styled Iliences. It has been shewn that Clau. 

 dius, after the example of Alexander, had perpetually exempted 

 them from the payment of any tribute. In their district stood the 

 Pagus lliensium, with the (Callicone) beautiful hill ; and nearly 

 thirty stadia farther towards the west, reversing the order of the 

 bearing given by Strabo, the Hiliensium Civitas. If therefore this 

 hill, so pre-eminently entitled to the appellation of Callicolone, 

 from the regularity of its form, and the groves by which it seems 

 for ages to have been adorned, be further considered, on account 

 of its antiquities, an indication of the former vicinity of the Ilien. 

 siau village, it hhotlld follow, that observing a westward course, 



