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another inscription, but not equally perfect. The following 
letters were all I could collect from the most careful examina¬ 
tion of the stone : 
AiTn©Ynzi 
IMHT AN AE AYS AI 
HATHPKAT ATHNTOYIl A 
GHKHNEZEniKPIMTO 
kai KiA ioy zo yno 
TAMIOYKA 
AflOAE 
We afterward proceeded to tlie Greek village of Call!fat, 
situated near the spot where the. Callifat Osmack joins the 
Mender. In the streets and courtyards of this place were ly¬ 
ing several capitals of Corinthian pillars; and upon a broken 
marble tablet, placed in a wall, I noticed part of an inscription 
in metre; the rest of the characters having perished: 
. . IAYZINANAPAI1NIK 
.nPOKAONYMO . . .... 
. . P02T020Y . ...... 
■ ' X . :/ : 
_ 'rj/h:, \ ... 
WBife I was copying this, some peasants of ilie place came 
to me with Greek medals. They were all of copper, in high 
preservation, and all medals of Ilium, struck in the time of 
the Roman -emperors/* On one side was represented the figure 
of Hector combating, with his shield and spear, and the words 
EKTOPIA1BON ; and upon the other, the head either of Antoni¬ 
nus, Faustina, Severus, or some later Roman emperor or em¬ 
press. As there were so many of these Iliean medals, I asked 
where they Were found; and w 7 as answered in modern Greek, 
* The copper coinage of Greece was not in use until toward the close of the Pe¬ 
loponnesian war. It Avas first introduced at Athens, at the persuasion of one Dio¬ 
nysius; thence called XciAkovs ; according to Athenseus, lib. xv. c. 3. fck lib. iL c. 12, 
