146 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
CHAP, turrets^ as of a citadel, in the soil immediately 
* ^- ■ behind the house of the jigha. The relics of 
very antient pavement may also be observed in 
the street of the village ; and in the front of 
it, upon a large block of Parian marble, used as 
a seat, near to the mosque, Mr. JValpole observed 
a curious Inscription, which is here subjoined, in^ 
an extract from his Journal '. 
CO " I shall here give an Inscription which I copied at Bourua- 
bashy, and which has never yet been published. It is on a piece of 
marble, now serving as a seat, and very interesting, being found on 
the supposed site of Troy 5 but to what city of the Troad it belongec[, 
cannot be determined from any fact mentioned in it. From the 
omission of the lura. adscript, it may be referred to the time of the 
Romans (See Cfdshull, Antiq. Asiat.) ; and a form of expression pre- 
cisely similar to one in the inscription is to be found in the Answer 
of the Romans to the Teians, in Chishull, p. 102. 
..... ENPANTIKAIPnPEPITHZ 
PPOZTOOEIONEYZEBEIAZ 
KAIMAAIZTAPPOXTHNAOHNAN 
EKTHSPPOTEPONrPA<l)EIZHZ 
EPIZTOAHSPPOZYMAZPE 
PEISMAinAZi<{>ANEPONPE 
<l>YKENAIKAOHNATZTEBOYZKAt 
TOYZBOYKOAOYS . . . 
" This Inscription seems to have formed part of a message to the, 
citizens or magistrates of the place ; and the writer refers in it to 
something formerly addressed to them concerning piety towards the 
Gods, but particularly towards Minerva ; and mention is made cf 
oxen, w'hich may have been offered up to the Goddess ; as Xerxes, we 
find from Herodotus, sacrificed to her, when at Trov, a tbousau4 
oxen ; £Vf« ;^(X/a; /iijyj," WalpoW s MS. Journal. 
