. 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. No. 1538. Map indicating the Sites of Thymbra and Hanai Tcpeh, and the junction of the Eivers Thymbrius and Scamander. » II. X. 428. App. IV.] THYMBRA, HANAI TEPEH. BY MR. FRANK CALVERT. 707 allocation, though it does not establishthe geographical position of Thym-bra, yet, taken with the more preciseinformation given by Demetrius ofScepsis, is of value ; it evidences thata directon opposi
. 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. No. 1538. Map indicating the Sites of Thymbra and Hanai Tcpeh, and the junction of the Eivers Thymbrius and Scamander. » II. X. 428. App. IV.] THYMBRA, HANAI TEPEH. BY MR. FRANK CALVERT. 707 allocation, though it does not establishthe geographical position of Thym-bra, yet, taken with the more preciseinformation given by Demetrius ofScepsis, is of value ; it evidences thata directon opposite to the sea, thatis, inland, was intended by the more modern author places thetemple of Apollo Thymbraeus at fiftystadia from Ilium (NovumJ, at the junc- tion of the river Thymbrius with Thymbra was identifiedby Hobhouse with Akshi Kioi^ (thepresent Thymbra Farm), and BarkeiWebb recognized the Thymbrius inthe Kemar Su.* My researches haveled to the discovery of another ancientsite at Hanai Tepeh, separated fromthat of Akshi Kioi by an interval ofabout five hundred yards (see Map, b. Scale. Unjlish Feel No. 15:9. General Plan of Excavation made at Hanai Tepeh. Strabo, xiii. p. 598. ^ Journey through Albania; London, 1813, p. 753. * Be Agra Trojano; Milan, 1821, p. 49. 708 THYMBKA, HANAI TEPEH. [App. IV. No. ] 538). At Akshi Kioi the remainsare of later date than at Hanai Homeric site of Thymbra wouldappear not to be identical with the latertown and temple of the Thymbrean Apollo of Demetrius; and subsequentancient authors appear to have trans-ferred it to Akshi Kioi from HanaiTepeh. Pre-historic Thymbra covereda considerable surface of land, on
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