PLAIN OF TROY. 
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capitals and shafts, of the finest white marble, were lying in the 
utmost disorder. Among them we also noticed some entire 
shafts of granite. The temples of Jupiter being always of the 
Doric order, we might suppose these mins to mark the site of a 
fane consecrated to I dean Jove; but Doric was evidently the 
prevailing order among the ancient edifices of the Troas, as it 
is found every where in the district, and all the temples in that 
part of Phrygia could not have been consecrated to the same 
deity. The ruins by the Callifat Water have not been hitherto 
remarked by any traveller; although Akerblad obtained, and 
published in a very inaccurate manner, an inscription I also 
copied there. It is as old as the Archooship of Euclid.*— 
Having already twice before published it both in the account 
of the Greek marbles preserved in the vestibule of the public 
library at Cambridge,! and also in the appendix to the disser¬ 
tation on the soros of Alexander,! the introduction of the ori¬ 
ginal legend here would be deemed an unnecessary repetition. 
It was inscribed upon the lower part of a plain marble pillar : 
this we removed to the Dardanelles, and afterward sent to 
England. The interpretation sets forth, that those partak¬ 
ing OF THE SACRIFICE, AND OF THE GAMES, AND OF THE WHOLE 
FESTIVAL, HONOURED PyTHA, DAUGHTER OF SCAMANDROTI- 
MUS, .NATIVE OF ILIUM, WHO PERFORMED THE OFFICE OF 
CANEPHORAS IN AN EXEMPLARY' AND DISTINGUISHED MAN¬ 
NER, FOR HER PIETY TOWARD THE GODDESS.” In the COF1- 
jecture already offered, that the stream, on the banks of which 
those edifices were raised, and these vows offered, was the 
Simois of the ancients, some regard was necessarily intended, 
both to the ruins here situated, and the inscription to which 
reference is now made. A certain degree of collateral, although 
no positive evidence, may possibly result from the bare mention 
of places and ceremonies, connected by their situation, and 
consecrated by their nature, to the history of the territory 
where Simois flowed. 
JSTear the same place, upon a block of Parian marble, I found 
* See the late Professor Porson’s opinion, as given in the author’s account of 
Greek Marbles” at Cambridge, p. 50. 
t Ibid. 
I “ Tomb of Alexander.” 
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