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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 nHrAI ; and if so, near the Scaean 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 TlzMov 'iXvji'ov was behind Troy in the way to Ida. 



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

 rvjXoQev lv tt^Iu. The Acropolis stood on a rock. 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 ocp^vosa-cru. 



REMARKS 



ON THE 



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 3, we have and XZ 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 



