Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . ng on the tumulus of Aesyetes when the Achaeans should rushforth from the ships, and it must therefore have been situated to thenorth of Ilium, between the city and the Hellespont, probably about KoumKioi. If, therefore, Demetrius of Scepsis and Strabo, who adopted histheory, pretended that Pasha Tepeh was identical with the tumulus ofAesyetes, it was merely to uphold their impossible theory th
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . ng on the tumulus of Aesyetes when the Achaeans should rushforth from the ships, and it must therefore have been situated to thenorth of Ilium, between the city and the Hellespont, probably about KoumKioi. If, therefore, Demetrius of Scepsis and Strabo, who adopted histheory, pretended that Pasha Tepeh was identical with the tumulus ofAesyetes, it was merely to uphold their impossible theory that Troy hadbeen situated on the site of lXtecov Kw/xt). But Pasha Tepeh being in front of Ilium and to the side of the Plain, 6 Walpoles Travels, i. p. 108. 8 11. ii. 791-794, already quoted at p. 147. 7 H. xxiii. 255. 9 Strabo, xiii. p. 599. Chap. XII.] PASHA TEPEH: TOMB OF BATIEIA. G57 its position corresponds perfectly with the indications which Homer10gives us of the position of the monument held by the gods to be thetumulus of Myrine, whereas men believed it to be the sepulchre ofBatieia, and there can hardly be any doubt that the poet, in describingthis tomb to us, had Pasha Tepeh in We have seen that Batieia, or Bateia, was the daughter of Teucer, sonof the Scamander and the nymph Idaea, and the queen of , to whom the tumulus was ascribed by the gods, was one of the 0 77. ii. 811-814: rrjv i] toi duSpes BarUiav KiicXricrKOvaiv, ecTt 5e tis irpoirdpoiQe iroAios cuVem KoXccvrj, addvaroi 5e T6 art/na iroAvaKapd/xoio MvpivT]s eV TreStw airdtevde, irepiSpo/xos evOa tea) tvQa, 658 THE HEROIC TUMULI IN THE TROAD. [Chap. XII. Amazons who undertook a campaign against I remind the readerthat, according to Professor Sayce, Myrine is identical with Smyrna,which was a name of Artemis-Cybele, the Amazons having been in thefirst instance the priestesses of this Asiatic goddess. Mrs. Schliemann sank from the top a shaft 10J ft. broad and 17^ , and fou
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