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CLARKE^ TRAVELS. 
We were one hour and a quarter gerng from Erfcessy to 
Sigeum, or as it is now called, Yeny Cheyr. The promontory 
*>□ which the present village is situated bears the name of 
Cape Janissary. Its inhabitants are all Greeks, living with 
great cleanliness in their little cottages, and practising the 
customs of their forefathers, in their hospitality to strangers. 
Many valuable antiquities have, at different times, been dis- 
covered by the inhabitants. They brought to me an extremely 
rare bronze medal of Sigeum: on this the letters Cite, with the 
square sigma, were very perfect. The stone with the famous 
Sigean inscription, had been removed a short time before, by 
the British ambassador; and more recently, a marble had been 
found at Koumkeay, a village in the neighbourhood, w ith an 
inscription of the age of the Seleucidoe : this they permitted me 
to copy. It is, perhaps, nearly as ancient as the well-known 
inscription, now placed in the vestibule of the library of Tri¬ 
nity College, Cambridge, brought from Sigeum, by Edward 
Wortley Montague; although, in the uncertainty which in¬ 
volves the series of Syrian kings, it is impossible to assign any 
precise date. Antiochus, in the year 196, a. c. went into the 
Thracian Chersonesus, to establish a kingdom there, and in 
the neighbouring country, for Seleucus, his second son.* It is, 
however, difficult to discover any particular incident, in the 
history of the Seleucidae, alluded to by the first part of the 
inscription. Antiochus was wounded in some battle; and Me- 
irodorus probably afforded him assistance. T he purport of the 
inscription is not very clear, until we arrive at the eighth line ; 
we there see, that u Metrodorus of Amphipolis , the eon of Timo- 
eles , is praised by the senate and people for his virtue and good 
will toward the kings Antiochus and Seleucus , and the peo¬ 
ple : he is deemed a benefactor to the state; is to have access 
to the senate , and to be inscribed into the tribe and fraternity, 
■to which he may wish to belong No attempt, except in a 
letter or two, has been made toward the restoration of the first 
part of the inscription; the characters are given as they ap¬ 
peared upon the marble, throughout the whole : and the learn¬ 
ed reader will perceive where the words require correction. 
& Livy, Jib, xxsiii, Appia». is SjriasiS. Prideaux, part,2, 
