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APPENDIX
TO PART I.
No. I.
HISTORICAL EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE CITY OF EPIIESUS.
THE first historical circumstance connected with the Ephesian 1490 B.C.
territory, is an event recorded three centuries before the Trojan
war. Sesostris, who was contemporary with Moses, set up pillars
in the places which he conquered. " In Ionia (says Herodotus, ii.
10G) there are two figures of this king formed out of a rock : one
is in the way from Ephesus to Phocrea, the other betwixt Sardis
and Smyrna." This latter one has been discovered. A view and
notice of it appears in Texier's Asie Minewre, p. 132 ; Ghorard's
Archaologische /feitung, No. 3, p. 34, pi. 2 ; and in the Classical
Museum, vol. i. § xviii. Whether it represents Sesostris, has been
disputed, but all are agreed that it is the monument described by
Herodotus. Both these bas-reliefs-represented "a man five palms
in height : the right hand holds a javelin, the left a bow ; the rest
of his armour is partly Egyptian, partly Ethiopian. Across his
breast there is this inscription in the sacred characters of Egypt:—
' I conquered this country by the force of my arms.' This inscrip-
tion he caused to be engraved only in those countries where he had
met with a brave resistance : where otherwise, he added symbols
denoting the pusillanimity of the people."—(Herod, ii. 102.)
On the arrival of the Ionian colonists at Ephesus, Androclus,
one of the younger sons of Codrus the last king of Athens, was
made king : " And thence, says Pherecydes, this city became the
residence of the Ionian princes : and even now their descendants
are called kings, and enjoy particular honours ; such as occupying
1044.
TO PART I.
No. I.
HISTORICAL EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE CITY OF EPIIESUS.
THE first historical circumstance connected with the Ephesian 1490 B.C.
territory, is an event recorded three centuries before the Trojan
war. Sesostris, who was contemporary with Moses, set up pillars
in the places which he conquered. " In Ionia (says Herodotus, ii.
10G) there are two figures of this king formed out of a rock : one
is in the way from Ephesus to Phocrea, the other betwixt Sardis
and Smyrna." This latter one has been discovered. A view and
notice of it appears in Texier's Asie Minewre, p. 132 ; Ghorard's
Archaologische /feitung, No. 3, p. 34, pi. 2 ; and in the Classical
Museum, vol. i. § xviii. Whether it represents Sesostris, has been
disputed, but all are agreed that it is the monument described by
Herodotus. Both these bas-reliefs-represented "a man five palms
in height : the right hand holds a javelin, the left a bow ; the rest
of his armour is partly Egyptian, partly Ethiopian. Across his
breast there is this inscription in the sacred characters of Egypt:—
' I conquered this country by the force of my arms.' This inscrip-
tion he caused to be engraved only in those countries where he had
met with a brave resistance : where otherwise, he added symbols
denoting the pusillanimity of the people."—(Herod, ii. 102.)
On the arrival of the Ionian colonists at Ephesus, Androclus,
one of the younger sons of Codrus the last king of Athens, was
made king : " And thence, says Pherecydes, this city became the
residence of the Ionian princes : and even now their descendants
are called kings, and enjoy particular honours ; such as occupying
1044.