1 56 Dr. Kennedy Bailie's Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 



The summits of both are surmounted with a circular arch, which in one is 

 repeated at an interval of about half a foot. The curves are marked by sculp- 

 ture in low relief. 



The bodies of each are divided into compartments, which are, in the one I 

 have particularly referred to, rather more numerous, and more elaborately 

 worked. To three oblong rectangular spaces, of unequal breadths, which cross 

 the stone, succeeds a fourth of much ampler dimensions, divided into four square 

 compartments, with intermediate areas, on which the Armenians have sculptured 

 some characteristic devices, relating most probably to the occupations of the de- 

 ceased, but without altogether effacing the Greek ornaments. They have also 

 introduced here, as in most of their grave-stones which I saw at Ak-Hissar, in- 

 scriptions in their language, but have used some precaution, which I should con- 

 clude arose rather from the exigency of the case, than taste, in' selecting such 

 parts of the monuments for that purpose as had not been pre-occupied by the 

 Hellenic. 



These last are, in consequence, almost perfect, and inform us of the following 

 particulars. 



Firstly; that a lady named Nanas, erected this monument for the use of her 

 husband ApoUonius, and her own, which intention was subsequently carried into 

 effect by their sons, ApoUonius and Asalius. 



Secondly; that a person of the name of Andromachus Latypus, I conclude of 

 the same family as the abovementioned, had been interred in the same soros. 

 This name occurs in the depressed space which intervenes between two of the 

 reliefs that run along the breadth of the stone, and immediately above the square 

 compartments, into which Its body is divided. 



Thirdly ; that a person called Zelas Latypus, whose name was engraved as a 

 heading to the second stone, lay in the soros of which it formed a part ; thus 

 proving what I have stated above as to the ownership of these monuments. It 

 is then recorded, in an intermediate space, that Domna, the daughter of Proteas 

 and Tatias (individuals doubtless of the family of the Latypi), had done honour 

 to the memory of her parents, that is, had fulfilled their intentions in the erection 

 of the soros, by depositing their remains therein. 



I have deemed the observation with respect to the names of the Latypi 



