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



(at least what has generally been supposed to be its site*), Magnesia (the Sipy- 

 leian), and added very considerably to my stock of inscriptions. Those of Per- 

 gamus which I now have the honour of submitting to the notice of the Academy, 

 were, in a great measure, the fruits of this excursion. I propose, with the per- 

 mission of the Council, to reserve for some future meeting, an account of my 

 researches during this period amongst the other sites I have mentioned. Of this 

 number, Yaikli, a village on the road from Bunar-Bashi to Eski-Stanpul, where 

 evident indications of Roman colonization meet the traveller's view on all sides, 

 Eski-Stanpul itself, the representative of Troas, and Beeram, that of Assos, fur- 

 nished the greater part. 



a. The Pergamene inscriptions are seven in number ; four of the antebyzantine 

 age ; two of that period ; and one of comparatively very recent date, in the 

 modern language and style of writing. I copied it from the upper part of the 

 architrave of the church of St. Theodore solely as a matter of curiosity, and sub- 

 mit a fac-simile which, I may observe, it was exceedingly difficult to take, from 

 the intricacy of the character and the abbreviations employed by the engraver. 

 The date of this is 1653, A. C. Those of the inscriptions of the Byzantine period 

 are, respectively, 1433 and 1461. 



h. One of these, the latest, was a testimony of affection on the part of a lady 

 named Aelia Noma, towards a person of the other sex, of the name of Aelius 

 Isidotus, but whether her husband, or in what degree related, is not mentioned. 

 The just tribute to the virtues of his private character is not forgotten : and 

 here, we may remark In passing, the peculiar and vitiated taste of the age is 

 manifest. From the commencement of one of his names, Isidotus, and the ter- 

 minating syllables of his professional title, Geometres, a sort of medley is formed 

 to express his moral accomplishments, as will be evident to any one who compares 

 the fourth with the two preceding lines. 



c. Indeed, something analogous to the same taste may be observed in the 

 other nearly coeval inscription which accompanies it. The subject of the eulo- 

 gium in this case was Nicodemus, an architect, who had at his private cost re- 

 paired and embellished a public thoroughfare in Pergamus, called the Aediles' 

 walk, or mall (dyopavofiios irepiiraTos). The hint afforded by the name of 



* Compare Plin. v. 31, 8. Arundell's Visit, SfC. p. 297. 



