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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2012
The Troad has been so thoroughly explored of late years that my only excuse for saying anything about my own travels in it during the autumn of 1879 is partly that they were undertaken in the cause of archaeology, partly that I enjoyed the advantage of having Mr. Frank Calvert as a guide. Mr. Calvert has lived so long in the country, and is so well acquainted with its archaeology, in the interest of which he has excavated on various historic and prehistoric sites, that I could not fail to obtain a better knowledge of the whole district than has hitherto fallen to the lot of most visitors. Dr. Schliemann, moreover, had kindly placed his foreman and servant, Nikóla, at the disposal of myself and my friend, Mr. F. W. Percival, and as Nikóla is a native of Ren Keui, I had additional opportunities of making myself acquainted with Trojan topography.
Since Dr. Schliemann, however, has entered fully into this subject in his work on ‘Ilios,’ I shall content myself with a few selections from the notes I made during my journey, and draw attention to one or two matters which have not been observed before. But I must first of all confess myself a convert to the theory which identifies the Ilium of Homer with Hissarlik. If Troy ever existed, it could have only been on the site of Hissarlik.
page 78 note 1 It occurs as the first character of the name inscribed on the base of a small terra-cotta figure of a woman found by Major di Cesnola at Salamis, which is read Olimpais, by M. Pierides.
page 79 note 1 It is possible that a fragment of the old language of the country may be preserved in an inscription in Greek letters found by Mr. Frank Calvert in the necropolis of Thymbra and published in Le Bas, , Voyage archéologique (1847), No. 1743mGoogle Scholar, which is as follows:—
page 82 note 1 The inscription may be compared with the one on a granite column at Yekli (Gheykli), near Alexandria Troas, given in Le Bas, No. 1732:—(Im)p. Cae(sar), divi Trai(ani) Parthici (filius), divi Nervae nep(os) Traianu(s) Hadrianus, Aug. pont. max. trib. pot. viii., cos. iii. S iii.
page 84 note 1 See my letters in the Academy, August 16 and November 1, 1879.
page 84 note 2 History of the Coinage of Ephesus, p. 5.
page 85 note 1 It was first discovered by Dr. John Beddoe, in company with Count Königsmarck and Dr. Scott of Southhampton, in 1856, but as nothing was said about the fact, Mr. Karl Humann, who visited the spot in June, 1875, may claim the merit of first making known the existence of the missing figure. Humann's discovery was published by Prof.Curtius, E. in the Archäologische Zeitung for 1875, pp. 50, 51Google Scholar (where, however, the copy of the figure is not quite correct, and the old road does not run along the east side of the stream, as stated), and by Dr.Clarke, Hyde in the Athenaeum of October 16, 1875, pp. 516, 517.Google Scholar
page 87 note 1 The path by which the Median soldier found his way into the acropolis must have been formed by one of these landslips, and was consequently unknown to the garrison. The legend, according to which the vulnerable point was caused by the lion carried round the citadel by Meles not passing over it, is plainly to be explained in the same way, (Hdt. i. 84).
