SATYRI MONUMENTUM
SATYRI MONUMENTUM (
τὸ Σατύρου μνῆμα,
Strab. xi. p.494), a monument consisting of a vast mound of earth, erected in a very conspicuous situation on a promontory on the E. side of the Cimmerian Bosporus, 90 stadia S. of Achilleum, It was in honour of a king of Bosporus, whom Dubois de Montpéreux identifies with Satyrus I., who reigned B.C. 407--393. (
Voyage autour du Caucase, v. p. 48.)
The same authority (
lb. p. 36) identifies the mound with the hill
Koukuoba. [
T.H.D]