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



which I have not met elsewhere, that is, ya^eiov. The question is, what does this 

 mean ? We know what ya^a or yd^r], adopted from the Persian, was,* and that 

 from it was derived the well-known ya^o^uAa/cioi/.f We have, likewise, the ana- 

 logy of apx^lov, a registry/ office, Ta/jLehv or Tafiielov, a treasury, formed from apyj) 

 and ra/ttay, and the like. If then ya^ehv be the legitimate restoration in this pas- 

 sage, the conclusion appears at least to be probable, that the public building in 

 which this monument was directed to be set up, was none other than the cele- 

 brated treasury of Croesus, and therefore (supposing it to have been found in situ), 

 that the spot it occupies was within the precincts of that building. I mention this, 

 because, as I have remarked already, it has been very generally supposed that the 

 Gerusia is represented by a considerable pile, which arrests the traveller's attention 

 somewhat further on towards the west, and in the direction of the Pactolus. 



However this may be, the propriety of the use of the term ya^eiov is quite a 

 distinct question. Tafiecov is that which I have found elsewhere, as, for example, 

 in the Thyatirene Tituli. But the Persian invasion, and subsequent dynasty, 

 account so satisfactorily for the former, that we may well allow the Sardian scribe 

 the use of the term, without supposing him to have affected singularity. 



I hasten, however, to conclude my remarks on this document, reserving more 

 detailed ones for a fitter opportunity. The last I shall now offer is on the use of 

 drropiav, of which almost the entire has been preserved in the eighth line, to 

 which I may add that o{ evSeiav (but of this I am not equally certain), in the 

 seventeenth. These expressions illustrate very forcibly the picture which the 

 Roman historian of those times draws, in his own brief yet graphic style, of the 

 depth of misery into which the Sardians had been plunged by the catastrophe 

 that had laid waste their devoted region. 



The words of Tacitus are : " Eodem anno duodecim celehres Asia urbes 

 coUapscB nocturno motu terra: quo improvisior graviorque pestis fuit. Neque 

 solitum in tali casu effugium subveniebat, in aperta prorumpendi, quia diductis 

 terris hauriebantur : ' Sedisse immensos montes : visa in arduo quae plana 

 fuerint: effusisse inter ruinam ignes,' memorant. Asperrima in Sardianos 

 lues plurimum in eosdem misericordice traxit."X 



* Vid. Reland. Dissert. Misc.ii. p. 184. f Comp. S. Mark. xii. 41 : S. Luke, xxi. 1. 



X Annal. ii. 47. Comp. Strab. xiii. 4, p. 15+. Tauchn. 



