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ration of those who are best qualified to decide on the criticism of inscriptions, 

 when my first part shall have made its appearance. 



/*. The next in order is also entaphial. A lady named Aurelia Tycha 

 erected the soros for her own use, for that of her husband Aurelius (Rufus?) 

 for that of their sons and daughters-in-law, and lastly, of the Olnetizi, a family 

 of distinction, most probably, at the time of its erection, in Thyatira. At the 

 close we again meet evidence of the Macedonian origin of that town in the date 

 which is given, namely, the eighth of Dassius, answering to the sixth before the 

 Nones of May in the Roman reckoning, and to the second of that month in our 

 calendar. 



i. The ninth, and last of my Thyatirene tituli, also a sepulchral docu- 

 ment, wants the name of the founder of the monument, but compensates 

 for this by its mentioning at the close the existence in Thyatira of a public 

 building for registries, called the Panionian Archium (to apx^lov iravLcoviov), 

 thus hinting some connexion with, or It may have been, a memorial of, the cele- 

 brated confederacy which bore that name. We observe in this also the name of 

 Trajan as designative of the month which was called after that emperor, but in 

 a part of the stone which had sustained so much injury as to be almost illegible. 



It is proper, however, to apprize my audience, that my proofs for what has 

 been here advanced, are by no means so satisfactory as to supersede other at- 

 tempts to restore the true readings. I have accordingly, in my commentary on 

 this part, proposed another series of these, and have accompanied it with a tran- 

 script of my original copy, to enable such inquirers as may feel an interest in the 

 present subject to judge for themselves. 



Of other remains of antiquity I could discover none whatever in Ak-Hissar, 

 with the exception of capitals of columns, friezes with architectural sculpture, 

 and pediments, the former of which have been employed for the most part in the 

 construction of wells, which the traveller meets in every part of Asia Minor. 

 Altar-pieces and capitals — the latter when of sufficiently massive proportions to 

 admit of their being used for such purposes, are the materials one chiefly finds ap- 

 propriated to these works of public utility ; In one respect a fortunate application 

 of those treasures of ancient art, and infinitely preferable to using them as street- 

 pavement, or for the substructions of dwelling-houses. The most valuable in- 

 scriptions have thus been often preserved : but woe to the luckless monument 



