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



found in the Consular Fasti in conjunction with T. Aurelius Fulvus, during the 

 reign of Hadrian, and in the year U. C. 873. He had been sent previously into 

 Bithynia, and filled shortly after the important office of Proconsul in Syria.* 



The next date is given according to the Macedonian reckoning, and corres- 

 ponds, in our's, to the fifth of December, that is, supposing Ussher's computation 

 to be correct, which agrees sufficiently well with Ideler's table referred to above,f 

 if we take the list of congruous months in the Calendars of Macedon and Athens 

 with which Plutarch supplies us : but here there exists some diversity of opinion, 

 a discussion of which I postpone to a more suitable occasion ; contenting myself 

 at present with stating the Athenian Poseideon, that is, half December, half 

 January, to be the month I have selected as answering to Audynaeus. 



I have been induced by the value and fine state of preservation of this se- 

 pulchral inscription, to diverge somewhat from my regular course, as it is the 

 sixth in the order of those from Thyatlra. But it has saved me the trouble of 

 commenting at any great length on most of the others, as of the nine which I 

 have brought away from thence, perhaps five, certainly four, are entaphial re- 

 cords. 



The following is a list of these, and a concise account of their contents. 



a. A fragment of a Latin inscription, which I am inclined to think was the 

 titulus of a statue erected by the citizens of Thyatira in honour of the proconsul 

 Severus, the same who is mentioned in the foregoing. The high terms of 

 eulogy in which the historian DioJ has written concerning this functionary, 

 makes it at least probable, that his administration should have been distinguished 

 with this mark of honour. I have accordingly ventured to restore it, and in 

 conformity with the known rules of the Roman Sigla, on this hypothesis. 



The marble on which it was engraved has been built into one of the walls of 

 the old Greek church of St. Basil in Ak-Hissar, which is now used as a mosque. 

 The entire thereof, with the exception of the part containing my inscription, has 

 been covered in the Turkish fashion with a coarse plaster. I attempted to dis- 

 lodge as much of this as might have enabled" me at least to test the accuracy of 

 my conjecture, but the fanaticism of the Imam was aroused, and I judged it my 

 most prudent course to forbear. 



* Dio. Hist. Rom.kix. 14. f Vid. p. 123. % Hist. Rom. ubi supr. 



