] 20 Dr. Kennedy Bailie's Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 



fractured block of marble, which has been built into the east wall of the Venetian 

 fort of San Pletro, and consists of ten lines, each numbering from seven to ten 

 letters. It is plain, therefore, that but a meagre fragment of the entire monu- 

 ment remains, and, unfortunately, without any word of so precise an import as to 

 throw light on its subject-matter or date. This is the more to be regretted, as there 

 is something in the air of the inscription, which informs us that it was of a good 

 era ; and that the monument had been destined to perpetuate some remarkable 

 event in the history of the town, perhaps the earlier, or that previous to the 

 Roman dynasty. There is an allusion, in the first line, to an embassy, either to 

 or from Greece ; one, in the second and third, to the free constitution of 

 Smyrna : another reference of the same import perhaps, in the fourth and fifth ; 

 in the remaining lines, more especially the ninth and tenth, the allusions are to 

 its allies and confederates, but whether states or personages we have no means of 

 determining. It may be, that the concluding expressions comprise both. 



The learned Society which I address, will apply these hints to specific events 

 in the Ionian history, in which the city of Smyrna was prominently engaged. 

 We know, in general, that intercourse with Greece Proper was constantly main- 

 tained by the Asiatic confederation ; in particular, that the games formed a most 

 important centre of union.* Again, there was the treaty with Seleucus, which 

 is not obscurely hinted at by the abbreviator of Trogus ; f lastly, there was the 

 league formed by the citizens of Lampsacum, Alexandria Troadis, and Smyrna, 

 in favour of the Romans against Antiochus.| 



To which of these, if to any, the fragment under consideration refers, we 

 have but scanty materials for determining. The terms in which it concludes, 

 TOYSEYNOI AS^YNEP that is, cooperators in offices of good- 

 will, S)C., should lead us to infer, that the states of the Ionian alliance, either in 

 whole or in part, had been mentioned in the document : but unfortunately, not 

 a trace of their names has been preserved. It occurred to me, when studying 

 the inscription on the spot, that possibly it had formed part of a supplement to 

 the provisions of the treaty with the citizens of Magnesia (ad Sipylum), in 

 support of the interests of Callinicus, which has been brought over to England 

 by the Earl of Arundel, and the student of such matters will find published at 



• Pausan. v. 8, 2. f Hist, xxvii. 2. % Liv. Hist, xxxiii. 38 ; xxxv. 42. 



