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62 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
mon in Caria and the neighboring tracts (besides Pedasos,
lassos, Halicarnassos, Mylassa, Halmylessos, Milessos, Ades-
sos, and Tymnissos, that is, the city of Tymnos, a Carian hero,
in Caria; Pelmessos, Sagalessos, Carmylessos, Acalissos, and
Habessos, a name of Antiphellos, in Lycia; Colobrassos, Saga-
lassus, Tarbassos, Aarassos, Termessos, Pednelissos, and Sel-
gessos, the ancient name of Apamea, in Pisidia ; Ariassos and
Termessos in Cabalia; Coropassos, Adopissos, and Pirnissos
in Lycaonia, and many others). In many of these cases the
independent significance of the prefix is recognizable, so that
it is conceivable that it might be dropped off as in the case of
Assos.
In the passage last referred to, Strabo speaks of Pedasos as
not in existence in his time; but his failure to identify it with
Assos may be compared to his fallacious argument concerning
the site of ancient Troy, and his refusal to admit the identity
of the primitive Chrysa with the town bearing that name at a
later day.1
Strabo2 quotes the passage from the Iliad in which Pedasos
1 Dr. Schliemann, in his recently published book of Travels already referred to,
p. 14, note 2, as well as in a paper previously read before the Anthropological
Society of Berlin, which appeared in the Augsburger Allgemeim Zeitung, iden-
tifies Assos with the Homeric Chrysa ; remarking : " ich glaube dies um so
mehr, als, nach der Ilias (i. 431), das alte Chrysa einen Hafen hatte, der ihm
auch von Strabo (xiii. 612), zugeschrieben wird, wahrend an der ganzen nbrd-
lichen Kiiste des Golfs von Adramytteion Assos der einzige Ort ist, der einen
solchen hat" (p. 23). That Chrysa was situated upon the Gulf of Adramyttion
seems an assumption at variance with the shortness of the voyage of Odysseus,
which appears to have been made, from Troy to Chrysa and back, in one of the
poet's days. In this view the account would well agree with the identification
of ancient and modern Chrysa, assumed on the accompanying sketch map. At a
point of the coast near that site (the modern village of Kinlaclee) a small cove,
constantly sought by fishing boats, provides good anchorage for vessels of no
great draught, and, in most winds, fair shelter. Homer's description of the
landing-place and the anchoring is better applicable to this spot than to one pro-
vided with a breakwater. Strabo, in the passage referred to, in regard to the
harbor merely repeats the words of Homer.
2 Strabo, xiii. 584.
mon in Caria and the neighboring tracts (besides Pedasos,
lassos, Halicarnassos, Mylassa, Halmylessos, Milessos, Ades-
sos, and Tymnissos, that is, the city of Tymnos, a Carian hero,
in Caria; Pelmessos, Sagalessos, Carmylessos, Acalissos, and
Habessos, a name of Antiphellos, in Lycia; Colobrassos, Saga-
lassus, Tarbassos, Aarassos, Termessos, Pednelissos, and Sel-
gessos, the ancient name of Apamea, in Pisidia ; Ariassos and
Termessos in Cabalia; Coropassos, Adopissos, and Pirnissos
in Lycaonia, and many others). In many of these cases the
independent significance of the prefix is recognizable, so that
it is conceivable that it might be dropped off as in the case of
Assos.
In the passage last referred to, Strabo speaks of Pedasos as
not in existence in his time; but his failure to identify it with
Assos may be compared to his fallacious argument concerning
the site of ancient Troy, and his refusal to admit the identity
of the primitive Chrysa with the town bearing that name at a
later day.1
Strabo2 quotes the passage from the Iliad in which Pedasos
1 Dr. Schliemann, in his recently published book of Travels already referred to,
p. 14, note 2, as well as in a paper previously read before the Anthropological
Society of Berlin, which appeared in the Augsburger Allgemeim Zeitung, iden-
tifies Assos with the Homeric Chrysa ; remarking : " ich glaube dies um so
mehr, als, nach der Ilias (i. 431), das alte Chrysa einen Hafen hatte, der ihm
auch von Strabo (xiii. 612), zugeschrieben wird, wahrend an der ganzen nbrd-
lichen Kiiste des Golfs von Adramytteion Assos der einzige Ort ist, der einen
solchen hat" (p. 23). That Chrysa was situated upon the Gulf of Adramyttion
seems an assumption at variance with the shortness of the voyage of Odysseus,
which appears to have been made, from Troy to Chrysa and back, in one of the
poet's days. In this view the account would well agree with the identification
of ancient and modern Chrysa, assumed on the accompanying sketch map. At a
point of the coast near that site (the modern village of Kinlaclee) a small cove,
constantly sought by fishing boats, provides good anchorage for vessels of no
great draught, and, in most winds, fair shelter. Homer's description of the
landing-place and the anchoring is better applicable to this spot than to one pro-
vided with a breakwater. Strabo, in the passage referred to, in regard to the
harbor merely repeats the words of Homer.
2 Strabo, xiii. 584.