150 Dr. Kennedy Bailie's Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 



sion : I content myself at present with giving the result, and conclude with ex- 

 pressing it as my firm belief, that this titulus goes far to establish Dodwell's 

 opinion, and Hadrian's succession to the imperial purple jure hcereditario. It 

 implies the fact, that there had been some public and recognized expression, at 

 the least, of Trajan's intention ; one of superior stringency to a mere sponsio 

 adoptionis which Dodwell supposes, and suflficient to authorize both the citizens 

 of Pergamus to bestow, and Hadrian to accept, the highest title which could be 

 conferred on a subject of the empire. 



f. The inscription which I have placed next in order, was copied by me from 

 a cippus in the finest state of preservation in one of the by-streets of the town. 

 This also I was obliged to get cleared of the rubbish which had accumulated 

 around it, so as almost entirely to conceal it from view. The inscribed face lay 

 undermost, and it was with much difficulty that I succeeded in my object of ac- 

 quainting myself with its contents, in consequence of the uneasy position I was 

 forced to assume. 



This monument decorated at one time the tomb of a citizen of considerable 

 rank, M. Julius Major Maximianus, Qusstor, Propraetor, and Aedile (ayopavofios) 

 of the Romans, and is a curiosity in its way, from its being accompanied with a 

 brief description of the personal appearance of the deceased functionary, namely, 

 that he was well-favoured and of a ruddy complexion [eva^rjiifov kcu irvpaos.) 



g. The last of the series at present under review was copied by me from a 

 marble near the ruins of the church of St. John. This also had been sepulchral ; 

 but farther than its general import, it conveys no information whatever, from its 

 having been so completely mutilated. I copied it, however, as a memorial of 

 the Acropolis, from a most fatiguing excursion through the remains of which I 

 had just then descended : it had been brought down to its present position by a 

 Turkish mason, and built into the upper course of his garden wall. It was, 

 moreover, the only monument which I found in the city of Attains, in the lan- 

 guage of his self-constituted heirs. 



I regret to mention, that Magnesia {ad Sipylum), in which I remained for 

 two days, furnished me with no documents of this kind. Not but that I am 

 convinced it contains some, but because the general alarm which seemed to have 

 pervaded at that time the Greek population, rendered all my inquiries fruitless. 

 On one occasion, indeed, I was conducted by a Greek to a fountain, on the 



