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 Troy. i6i be the continuator and inheritor of Homeric Troy.' These twenty-five stadia of the old geographer harmonize with the figures set down in the map of Hissarlik as to its distance from the nearest point of the sea. Could however any doubt be felt respecting the identification of the site under notice, it would be amply met by the inscriptions found on the hill itself and the adjacent villages, wherein the name of the Ilian people occurs again and again.' If many of these inscribed slabs are Fig. 36. — Fountain to the south-east of Ihe dtEtdel. scattered in the immediate neighbourhood, it is because the inhabitants have used the mound as a marble quarry for the purpose of adorning their burial-grounds. What other centre ' The texts bearing on the question may be read in Schliemann's Ilm. = Corpus inurip. Grme. Most of these inscriptions were collected in the cemeteries of the Troad, notably at Tshtblak, its most important village ; but several epigraphic texts of great historical value were unearthed on the mound of Hissarlik itself. They record town decrees, donations made to its inhabitants, etc. {Ilios). Schliemann also brought a great number of autonomous and imperial (X>ins, silver, copper, and bronze, which form part of his collection. VOL. I. M