of the Grasco- Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 155 



known by the name of Diana's Baths. The copy which I have given is a tran- 

 script of one I had from a gentleman resident in Smyrna, who accompanied it, 

 at the same time, with a facsimile of part of the mosaic which had come into his 

 possession. This I have subjoined. 



The first part of this inscription was in so worn and illegible a state as 

 to preclude the possibility of extracting from it any consistent sense. The latter 

 half is, however, easily deciphered, with a few slight alterations. We read thus*: 

 rANYMHAOY2AIOIKHTOYnAKIAAH2AAMnPOTATH2: from which 

 the inference is obvious, that the tltulus was either commemorative of the virtues 

 of that officer, or that it had been inlaid at his expense for some other purpose ; 

 very probably to hand down to posterity a memorial of the most illustrious Pakiale, 

 his mistress. 



h. The third of this series, which was copied from a marble in the wall of 

 a khan, or Turkish inn, opposite to the Armenian church, was evidently se- 

 pulchral ; but the fragment which remains of it contains no name to assist our 

 researches. 



i. The next is, as I have stated, an inscription of the Byzantine age, and was 

 found engraved on a marble slab in one of those Greek churches which the 

 Turks have converted into mosques, at some distance from Smyrna. It was a 

 monumental tribute to the memory of an archbishop named ^Etherichus, and com- 

 mences accordingly with the stavros. 



k. The last of this series was copied fi'om a cistern which has been imbedded 

 in the wall of the same khan where the last but one was found. I present it as 

 a curiosity, from its strange admixture of characters, without indulging in any 

 vague conjectures as to their precise import. 



The entaphial inscriptions from Kutaieh, which have been subjoined to the 

 present fasciculus, may, I believe, with some degree of certainty, be reckoned 

 amongst the Inedlted ones which I have collected. They were copied from two 

 Armenian graves in the neighbourhood of the town, closed in, as usual, with 

 marbles abstracted from ancient soroi, and worked up so as to suit the tastes and 

 purposes of their more recent owners. 



I have drawn sketches in outline of these interesting relics, the workmanship 

 of which sufficiently attests the rank and consideration of the family whose pro- 

 perty they were. 



