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SITE OF COME.
[CltAP. xxni.
with the toga, enclosed within a wreath or garland. Ano-
ther large block of marble with a figure rudely sculp-
tured on it, carrying a standard surmounted by an impe-
rial eagle, seemed intended to form part of a large build-
ing, and the marks of the chisel were still visible upon
it. On the hill behind the village were more blocks of
stone, and amongst them one evidently sepulchral, being
divided on one side into four compartments, in two of
which garlands were sculptured, in another a large figure
like an inverted gamma, while the fourth was too much
injured to distinguish it. All these stones are of the same
material as the hill itself, a compact semi crystalline lime-
stone.
On the summit of the Acropolis are the remains of lines
of old walls, and houses of large and small stones irregu-
larly heaped together. In the burial-ground are several
fragments of columns, and large blocks of stone, while long
lines of wall, apparently ancient, stretch away to the south.
It is evidently the site of an ancient town, which was situated
between the present village and the burial-ground, with its
Acropolis to the N.N.W., and commanding a rich and ex-
tensive plain towards the south. With regard to its name
we have but few data to go on ; but the inscription No. 101
leads me to think that it marks the site of Come, the ca-
pital of the Comenses, who are described by Pliny as a
people of Galatia; if so, the vanity of an individual who,
during his lifetime, had all his honours and titles engraved
on his tombstone, will have been the means of discovering
the site and name of a town lost during many centuries.
Thursday, September 1.—Leaving Akjah Tash a little
before seven, the road led us along the foot of the hills
which formed the north and north-west limit of the plain,
passing through the village of Eleijik. Schistose rocks
alternated with the limestone; and the undulating and
partly cultivated country sloped gently to the valley on
our left. At nine our Suriji mistook the road; and, after
passing through another small village, led us to the N.W.,
SITE OF COME.
[CltAP. xxni.
with the toga, enclosed within a wreath or garland. Ano-
ther large block of marble with a figure rudely sculp-
tured on it, carrying a standard surmounted by an impe-
rial eagle, seemed intended to form part of a large build-
ing, and the marks of the chisel were still visible upon
it. On the hill behind the village were more blocks of
stone, and amongst them one evidently sepulchral, being
divided on one side into four compartments, in two of
which garlands were sculptured, in another a large figure
like an inverted gamma, while the fourth was too much
injured to distinguish it. All these stones are of the same
material as the hill itself, a compact semi crystalline lime-
stone.
On the summit of the Acropolis are the remains of lines
of old walls, and houses of large and small stones irregu-
larly heaped together. In the burial-ground are several
fragments of columns, and large blocks of stone, while long
lines of wall, apparently ancient, stretch away to the south.
It is evidently the site of an ancient town, which was situated
between the present village and the burial-ground, with its
Acropolis to the N.N.W., and commanding a rich and ex-
tensive plain towards the south. With regard to its name
we have but few data to go on ; but the inscription No. 101
leads me to think that it marks the site of Come, the ca-
pital of the Comenses, who are described by Pliny as a
people of Galatia; if so, the vanity of an individual who,
during his lifetime, had all his honours and titles engraved
on his tombstone, will have been the means of discovering
the site and name of a town lost during many centuries.
Thursday, September 1.—Leaving Akjah Tash a little
before seven, the road led us along the foot of the hills
which formed the north and north-west limit of the plain,
passing through the village of Eleijik. Schistose rocks
alternated with the limestone; and the undulating and
partly cultivated country sloped gently to the valley on
our left. At nine our Suriji mistook the road; and, after
passing through another small village, led us to the N.W.,