of the Grceco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 139 



b. The next inscription was copied from a mortar, formerly part of an altar, 

 lying in the court of the Agha's residence in a village* through which I passed 

 on my road from Pergamus to Magnesia (ad Sipylum). I was informed that it 

 had been brought by the servants of that magistrate, Kara-Osman-Oglu, from 

 Ak-Hissar, and I have therefore given it a place in the present series. 



It records an honour which had been conferred by the senate and people (of 

 Thyatira) on a distinguished matron, named Glykinna, in consideration of the 

 public services of her husband, Publius Aelius Aelianus. 



c. The third in order is also an honorary Titulus, commemorating the 

 deserts of a victorious prize-man in the public games. It records the erection of 

 a statue to his honour in a conspicuous position in Thyatira. The document 

 having been mutilated in this part, I am unable to determine the name of the 

 place with any degree of certainty ; but I am disposed to think it was the Asium,t 

 {to acrelou,) and very probably one of the gymnasia, of which there were several 

 in the ancient town. Apollonius Justus (of the first of these I am certain, but not 

 equally so of the last) was the name of this fortunate candidate for so envied 

 a distinction. The inscription mentions him as having been a victor in the torch- 

 race (XafJLTradapx^cTavTa), as having been crowned (crTe(f)avcodeuTa), and, in 

 general, as having excelled all other competitors (TrpcorevcravTa.) 



d. The fourth inscription commemorates a similar testimony in favour of a 

 successful athlete, Menander the son of Paullus, and on the part of the youths of 

 the first HeracleanJ gymnasia. This I copied from a beautifully sculptured 

 marble slab in the Armenian cemetery mentioned above. It had once, perhaps, 

 formed part of the pedestal of a statue, out of which it had been cut to adapt it 

 to its present, or some other position. 



e. The fifth cost me much trouble to decipher, nor am I yet assured of its 

 real import. At first I regarded it as sepulchral. This opinion I have since 

 abandoned for another, namely, that the marble fragment on which it appears, 



* Yaia-keui. 



I The reading ao-rsiov, which I have conjectured in a note on this inscription, is not by any means 

 so probable : nor is there an^ authority for the use of the word, as for ?rf o«Vt8io» in Herodian. Hist. 

 Rom. i. 12. 



I Or, dedicated to Sercules. The words are, »i Trtfi t«» ifccxxix rut a-p«'T«» yv/*»xrtei» »g«>iVxo( 

 irifiriirxf. 



