. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the 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. dwv avr ayop^v iroiijcaro (paiSifios EKTUp, See pp. 181, 182. Chap. XIL] THE TOMB OF HECTOR. 671 in which he states that first of all he was conducted to Hectors heroiim,where his bronze statue stood in a small temple ; it was anointed withoil, and there was still a sacrificial fire burning on the altar. But already,perhaps more than 700 years before Julians time, Thebes in Boeotiahad disp
. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the 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. dwv avr ayop^v iroiijcaro (paiSifios EKTUp, See pp. 181, 182. Chap. XIL] THE TOMB OF HECTOR. 671 in which he states that first of all he was conducted to Hectors heroiim,where his bronze statue stood in a small temple ; it was anointed withoil, and there was still a sacrificial fire burning on the altar. But already,perhaps more than 700 years before Julians time, Thebes in Boeotiahad disputed with Ophrynium and Ilium the honour of possessingHectors bones; for, as Pausanias^ relates, in consequence of an oracleHectors bones were brought from Ilium to Thebes, and a tomb waserected over them at the fountain of Oedipus, where they were wor-shipped. I may still further mention that in the Pejolos of Aristotle is anepigram : ^ . Eirl E/cto/jos Kfififpov (v Qrtfiais- l^KTopi t6v Se jxiyav BorJiTioi dvSpes (Tev^avTVfi^ov inrep -yaiTji, ffrifi (myiyvofievois. I give here finally under No. 1518 the engraving of a terra-cottafigure, probably an idol, which was found by a boy near the village of. No. 1518. Figure of Terra-cotta, wilh a cap on the head;found in the Troad, near the surface. (Actual size.) Yeni Shehr, and which is remarkable for its resemblance to some of therudest Mycenean idols.^^ Paus, aus. ix. 18, § 4 : Ectti 5e koI E/cropos at « iOeXTjre irarpav oIkuv ahu afj-v/xovL ttKovtw, Qri^aioLS rdcpos rod npid/xov irphs OlSiiroSiq. EKTopos offrea npiayuiSou KO^iaavres is oXkovs Ka\ Kp-hvri ? Koixiaai Se outoD to offra i\ e| hffirts Aihs evvealrts vpoja ai^eadai. Wiov (paalv firl roi^Se ixavTeiixari • » Appendix Epif/rammatum Anthol. Palat. 9. &rifia7oi KdSfioio iruKiv Kas-aj/aierdovres, See my Mycenae, PI. xviii. and xix. 672 THE AUTHOFS CONCLUSION. [Chap. XII. In closing this account of the result of my researches on the site of sacred Ilios and in
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