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SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTEE.
the Trooes, and many coins bear the name of the city of
the latter people. I feel quite certain, from the geographical
position and importance of the city called by the Greeks
Tlos, that this was the ancient city of the Trooes*: the
frequent change of the P to a A is known to all conversant
with the Greek language. We thus have the capital of the
northern portion of Lycia named after the Trooes, while
the city called by the Greeks Xanthus was the metropolis
of the Tramelse in the south.
Reviewing the country with these new ideas, I might
almost separate the cities of these former people from those
built by the colonists from Greece at an after period, pro-
bably not earlier than a century before the time of Herodotus.
To do this I should select only those places in which I have
observed features in art peculiar to the earliest inhabitants,
for in many the whole design of the city is purely Greek,
although the surrounding rocks afforded natural facilities for
excavations, of which the Lycians always availed themselves.
I find either coins, or mention in the inscriptions, of almost
the whole of this diminished number of the ancient cities, as
well as of several others, whose total destruction or great
change of name by the after inhabitants prevents their re-
cognition. We find the names of Troouneme (Tlos), Pinara,
Mere (Myra), Graeaga (Gragae), and Trabala: also the names
of Erecle, Pedassis, perhaps of Xenagora and Kopalle. To
the latter city belong two-thirds of the coins collected, and
many of them were obtained in the neighbourhood of the
city called by the Greeks Xanthus. I should conjecture
that Kopalle may have been the ancient name of this city,
but I know no grounds for the supposition beyond this cir-
cumstantial evidence. Stephanus Byzantinus states in his
Geography that the former name of Xanthus was Arna. I
see also traces of these early people in the cities called by
* Inscriptions have since been found which prove this opinion to be
correct.
ik Greeb I
Liinyra, and in
InthefiuH-n
^ these d\
exception, aw
m the tomb o:
fridently a I
liboth lani:u;tL
Itk custom b
e.73): "They
irate, which
nes from the
iv one is a
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female branc
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k we obtain tl
I used; it rec
styled by his ti
to liarji;
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SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTEE.
the Trooes, and many coins bear the name of the city of
the latter people. I feel quite certain, from the geographical
position and importance of the city called by the Greeks
Tlos, that this was the ancient city of the Trooes*: the
frequent change of the P to a A is known to all conversant
with the Greek language. We thus have the capital of the
northern portion of Lycia named after the Trooes, while
the city called by the Greeks Xanthus was the metropolis
of the Tramelse in the south.
Reviewing the country with these new ideas, I might
almost separate the cities of these former people from those
built by the colonists from Greece at an after period, pro-
bably not earlier than a century before the time of Herodotus.
To do this I should select only those places in which I have
observed features in art peculiar to the earliest inhabitants,
for in many the whole design of the city is purely Greek,
although the surrounding rocks afforded natural facilities for
excavations, of which the Lycians always availed themselves.
I find either coins, or mention in the inscriptions, of almost
the whole of this diminished number of the ancient cities, as
well as of several others, whose total destruction or great
change of name by the after inhabitants prevents their re-
cognition. We find the names of Troouneme (Tlos), Pinara,
Mere (Myra), Graeaga (Gragae), and Trabala: also the names
of Erecle, Pedassis, perhaps of Xenagora and Kopalle. To
the latter city belong two-thirds of the coins collected, and
many of them were obtained in the neighbourhood of the
city called by the Greeks Xanthus. I should conjecture
that Kopalle may have been the ancient name of this city,
but I know no grounds for the supposition beyond this cir-
cumstantial evidence. Stephanus Byzantinus states in his
Geography that the former name of Xanthus was Arna. I
see also traces of these early people in the cities called by
* Inscriptions have since been found which prove this opinion to be
correct.
ik Greeb I
Liinyra, and in
InthefiuH-n
^ these d\
exception, aw
m the tomb o:
fridently a I
liboth lani:u;tL
Itk custom b
e.73): "They
irate, which
nes from the
iv one is a
My to give i
female branc
From the ijix■
k we obtain tl
I used; it rec
styled by his ti
to liarji;
remembi
it the conti.lt
isreoorde
ployed by Aa
bile cruelty
'fthered sun. fa
bvenge fori
country
\\\
1W), that -
■est of the I...
the uppe
I havi
given by
km Ati