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1873.] THE INSCRIPTION DISCUSSED. 245
of assigning to Aristodicides the 2000 plethra of land,
either from the district bordering upon the territory of
Gergis or upon that of Scepsis. The town of Gergis,
however, according to Strabo, was destroyed by king
Attalus I. of Pergamus, who reigned from 241 to 197 B.C.,
and who transplanted the inhabitants to the neighbourhood
of the sources of the Ca'icus in Mysia. These sources,
however, as Strabo himself says, are situated very far from
Mount Ida, and hence also from Ilium. Two thousand
plethra of land at such a distance could not have been
of any use to the Ilians; consequently, it is impossible to
believe that the inscription can be speaking of the new
town of Gergitha, which was rising to importance at the
sources of the Ca'icus. I now perfectly agree with Mr.
Frank Calvert,* and with Consul von Hahn,f that the site
of Gergis is indicated by the ruins of the small town and
acropolis at the extreme end of the heights behind Bunar-
bashi, which was only a short time ago regarded by most
archaeologists as the site of the Homeric Troy. This
site of Gergis, in a direct line between Ilium and Scepsis,
the ruins of which are to be seen further away on the
heights of Mount Ida, agrees perfectly with the inscrip-
tion. Livy (XXXV. 43) gives an account of the visit
°f Antiochus III, the Great. I also find in the 'Corpus
Inscriptionum Graecarum,' No. 3596, that the latter
had a general called Meleager, who may subsequently
have become satrap of the Hellespont. On the other
hand, Chishull, in his ' Antiquitates Asiaticae,' says that
Antiochus I., Soter, on an expedition with his fleet against
the King of Bithynia, stopped at the town of Sigeum,
which lay near Ilium, and that the king went up to Ilium
with the queen, who was his wife and sister, and with the
great dignitaries and his suite. There is, indeed, nothing
said of the brilliant reception which was there prepared
* Archccological Journal, vol. xxi. 1864.
t Die Ausgrabungen aufder homerischen Pergamos, s. 24.
of assigning to Aristodicides the 2000 plethra of land,
either from the district bordering upon the territory of
Gergis or upon that of Scepsis. The town of Gergis,
however, according to Strabo, was destroyed by king
Attalus I. of Pergamus, who reigned from 241 to 197 B.C.,
and who transplanted the inhabitants to the neighbourhood
of the sources of the Ca'icus in Mysia. These sources,
however, as Strabo himself says, are situated very far from
Mount Ida, and hence also from Ilium. Two thousand
plethra of land at such a distance could not have been
of any use to the Ilians; consequently, it is impossible to
believe that the inscription can be speaking of the new
town of Gergitha, which was rising to importance at the
sources of the Ca'icus. I now perfectly agree with Mr.
Frank Calvert,* and with Consul von Hahn,f that the site
of Gergis is indicated by the ruins of the small town and
acropolis at the extreme end of the heights behind Bunar-
bashi, which was only a short time ago regarded by most
archaeologists as the site of the Homeric Troy. This
site of Gergis, in a direct line between Ilium and Scepsis,
the ruins of which are to be seen further away on the
heights of Mount Ida, agrees perfectly with the inscrip-
tion. Livy (XXXV. 43) gives an account of the visit
°f Antiochus III, the Great. I also find in the 'Corpus
Inscriptionum Graecarum,' No. 3596, that the latter
had a general called Meleager, who may subsequently
have become satrap of the Hellespont. On the other
hand, Chishull, in his ' Antiquitates Asiaticae,' says that
Antiochus I., Soter, on an expedition with his fleet against
the King of Bithynia, stopped at the town of Sigeum,
which lay near Ilium, and that the king went up to Ilium
with the queen, who was his wife and sister, and with the
great dignitaries and his suite. There is, indeed, nothing
said of the brilliant reception which was there prepared
* Archccological Journal, vol. xxi. 1864.
t Die Ausgrabungen aufder homerischen Pergamos, s. 24.