PL A IK OS’ TROY. 
the manner in which the stone was concealed by the soil, as 
well as the illegibility of the inscription, we could only dis¬ 
cern the following characters, in which the name of JuliUs 
again occurs: 
lorAior..... 
A P X O N . . . . . . 
sustaining what was before advanced, concerning the preva¬ 
lence of names belonging to the family of Germanicus, or of 
persons who flourished about his time. Upon a medal of Clau¬ 
dius, described by Vaillant,* belonging to Cotyodum , a city of 
Phrygia, bordering upon Troas,f we read the words Ein iot 
aiot tiot kOtiaehn. We proceeded hence toward the 
plain ; and no sooner reached it, than a tumulus of| very re¬ 
markable size and situation drew our attention, for a short time, 
from the main object of our pursuit. 
This tumulus, of a high conical form, and very regular 
structure, stands altogether insulated. Of its great antiquity 
no doubt can be entertained by persons accustomed to view 
the everlasting sepulchres of the ancients. J On the southern 
side of its base is a long natural mound of limestone: this, be¬ 
ginning to rise close to the artificial tumulus, extends toward 
the village of Callifat, in a direction nearly from north to 
south across the middle of the plain. It is of such height, that 
an army, encamped on the eastern side of it, would be con¬ 
cealed from all observation of persons stationed upon the coast, 
by the mouth of the Mender. It reaches nearly to a small and 
almost stagnant river, hitherto unnoticed, called Callifat Os- 
mack , or Callifat Water, taking its name from the village near* 
which it falls into the Mender: our road to that place after¬ 
ward led us along the top of the mound. Here then both art 
and nature have combined to mark the plain by circumstances 
* Numism. Imperat. August et Caes. p. 12. par. 1698. 
| See the observation of Mentelle, ( Encyclop. Method. Geogr. Andenne. Par, 1787.) 
tv ho thus places it on the authority of Pliny This position of the city does not, how¬ 
ever, appear warranted by any explicit declaration of that author. Pliny’s words 
are: “ Septentrionali sui parte Galatia contermina, Meridiana Lycaonice, Pisidia, Myg- 
doniaque, ab oriente Cappadociajn attingit. Oppida ibi celeberrima , prater jam dicta , 
Ancyra , Andria, Celana, Colossa , Carina , Cotiaion , Cerana, Iconiurn, Midaim .” Piin. 
Hist. Nat. tom. i. lib. v. p.284. Ed. L. Bat. 1635. 
“ Mr. Bryant says, the tumuli on the plain of Troy are Thracian. In addition 
to the passages in Strabo which prove the Phrygians, the inhabitants of the country, 
to have been in the custom of erecting tumuli, the following passage from Athenaeus 
may be added; ‘ You fhay see every where in the Peloponnesus, but particularly at 
Lacedaemon, large heaps of earth, which they call the tombs of the Phrygians, wh£> 
■cjime with Pelops,’ J, xiv. p. 625.” Walpole?$ MS. Journal* 
