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of Greek Coins, Cambridge, 1883, p. 175), interprets it differently. He says: "Aristotle (apud Steph. Byzant. s. v. Tenedos) entertained a fancy that the type arose from a decree of a king of Tenedos, punishing adultery with death. But he, Professor Gardner, thinks François Lenormant's opinion far more probable, that the double head is that of the dimorphous or androgynous Dionysus.

"There were found besides, 1 coin of Thyatira in Lydia, 1 of Parion, 1 of Pergamus; 1 of Teos, 1 of Panticapaeum, and several of Greece proper, among which latter is one of Ithaca, representing on one side a head of Ulysses with a Phrygian cap, on the other a cock, with the legend ΙΘΑΚΩΝ. Of non-Asiatic Roman coins more than a hundred were found."

There were gathered at least a dozen coins of monasteries; and, as similar coins are frequently picked up by shepherds on the site of Ilium, I now firmly believe that a monastery flourished here in the Middle Ages, and that even the statement of Constantinus Porphyrogennetus,^[1] who cites Ilium as a bishopric, may be referred to part of the Acropolis of Ilium. What strengthens me in this belief is the fact, that my architects found in the Acropolis foundations of buildings, in which capitals of the great Doric temple of Athené had been used instead of common stones. We can hardly admit that such an act of vandalism could have been committed as early as the end of the fourth century; it must have happened later. The existence of some sort of settlement here, at least in the earlier part of the Middle Ages, seems certainly indicated also by a moat, 6 mètres deep by 2.50 wide, which we found in the north-east corner of the Acropolis, and which seems to have surrounded a fort that stood there in the Middle Ages; but this fort must have been exceptionally small, because my architects find that the space enclosed by the moat