Lydian historian, Xanthus, preserved in Strabo.[1] He there states that the Mysians 'for a time lived about (the Trojan) Olympus; but when the Phrygians crossed over from Thrace, they captured both the ruler of Troy and the neighbouring country, and while they settled here the Mysians settled about the sources of the Caïcus, near the Lydians.' This must have been before the Trojan war, since after it, according to Strabo,[2] the Troad was occupied by Greek colonists, Trêres, Cimmerians, and Lydians, then by Persians and Macedonians, and finally by Gauls."
§ V. The Three Nameless Tumuli on Cape Rhoeteum.—I also commenced with twelve workmen sinking shafts, three mètres long and broad, in the three tumuli on Cape Rhoeteum to the north-east of the tumulus of Ajax,[3] having obtained the permission of the proprietor of the field, a Turk in Koum Kaleh, for £3. But, alas! I had been digging only one day, when this work too was prohibited by the military governor of the Dardanelles. Strange to say, though my workmen had reached in each tumulus a depth of about 1.50 m., not a single fragment of pottery turned up, and thus this excavation remained wholly without result.
§ VI. The so-called Tomb of Priam.—I also sank a shaft, three mètres long and broad, in the tumulus which is situated on Mount Bali Dagh behind Bounarbashi,[4] and is 25 m. in diameter by 2.50 m. in height: it used to be ascribed, by the adherents of the Troy-Bounarbashi theory, to King Priam himself. But I found there nothing
- ↑ XII. p. 572. Τέως μὲν γὰρ οἰκεῖν αὐτοὺς περὶ τὸν Ολυμπον· τῶν δὲ Φρυγῶν ἐκ τῆς Θράκης περαιωθέντων, εἵλοιτο τόν τε τῆς Τροίας ἄρχοντα καὶ τῆς πλησίον γῆς· ἐκείνους μὲν ἐνταῦθα οἰκῆσαι· τοὺς δὲ Μυσοὺς περὶ τὰς τοῦ Καΐκου πηγὰς πλησίον Λυδῶν.
- ↑ XII. p. 573.
- ↑ See the large Map of the Plain of Troy.
- ↑ See the large Map of the Plain of Troy.
