SlPYLUS AND ITS MONUMENTS. The monuments may be divided into two distinct groups, cor- responding with the sharply defined regions east and west of Sipylus. Aided by the excellent map drawn for us by M. Hirschfeld (Fig. 9), we will begin with the remains on the lamanlar-Dagh, specified by Pausanias, leaving for the last the statue of Cybele on Mount Codine, and the curious rock which recalled the pathetic legend of Niobe, situate on the eastern side. The site of the lamanlar-Dagh group is fixed by the Tantaleis tomb. With this should be ranged other vestiges in the immediate FIG. 10. Post of observation on Sipylus. CURTIUS, Beitriige, Plate VI. neighbourhood, bearing unquestionable marks of antiquity. The creek or primitive harbour, now covered by the alluvial plain around Bournabat, from which it takes its name, is found on the north of Smyrna. Facing the modern town of Haji Mujor (Fig. 9) is an isolated hillock, which in former days was an island at the entrance of the harbour, and served to render its waters " as smooth as oil." If one ascends the undulating ground which, on the north, looks down upon the ancient haven, a necropolis, whose graves are all tumuli, is first met with, and a little higher up is the Acropolis, along with other structures cut in the solid rock, with general direction to west. These remains consist of
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