Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . But the greatest discovery hasbeen at the hill, called by the Tartars Kul-Oho, orthe hill of cinders, which is situated outside of theancient rampart, and 4 miles from Kertch. Hereis a tumulus 165 feet in diameter; and as somesoldiers were carrying away from it in 1830 thestones with which it was covered, they accidentallyopened a passage into the interior. A vestibule, 6feet square, led into a tomb 15 feet long and 14broad, which contained bones of a king and queen,golden and silver vases, and other ornaments. Belowthis tomb was another, still richer;
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . But the greatest discovery hasbeen at the hill, called by the Tartars Kul-Oho, orthe hill of cinders, which is situated outside of theancient rampart, and 4 miles from Kertch. Hereis a tumulus 165 feet in diameter; and as somesoldiers were carrying away from it in 1830 thestones with which it was covered, they accidentallyopened a passage into the interior. A vestibule, 6feet square, led into a tomb 15 feet long and 14broad, which contained bones of a king and queen,golden and silver vases, and other ornaments. Belowthis tomb was another, still richer; and from thetwo no less than 120 pounds weight of gold orna-ments are said to have been extracted. From the PAPHLAGONIA. forms of the letters found here, as well as from othercircumstances, it is supposed that the tomb waserected not later than the fourth century b. c.(Dubois, Voyage autotir du Caucase, vol. v. p. 113,seq. ; Seymour, Russia on the Black Sea, 255, seq.; Neumann, Die HeUenen in Skythen-lande, vol. i. p. 478, seq.). COIN OF PANTICAPAEUM. PANTICAPES (JlavTiKcinTis), a river of Euro-pean Sarmatia, between the Borysthenes and theTanais, rises in a lake, according to Herodotus,in the N., separates the agricultural and nomadScythians, flows through the district Hylaea, andfalls into the Borysthenes. (Herod, iv. 18, 19, 47,54; comp. Plin. iv. 12. s. 26; Mela, ii. 1. § 5.)Dionysius Per. (314) says that it rises in the Rhi-paean mountains. Many suppose it to be the Sa-mara ; but it cannot be identified with certaintywith any modem river. For the various opinionsheld on the subject, see Bahr, ad Herod, iv. 54;Ukert, vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 191. Stephanus B. erro-neously states that the town of Panticapaeum stoodupon a river Panticapes. [Panticapaeum.] PANTrCHIUxM(narT(xoi),a small coast-townof Bithynia, to the south-east of Chalcedon, on thecoast of the Propontis. {It. Ant. p. 140; 571; Tab. Peut.) The place still bears the nameof Pandik or Pandikhi. [L. S
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