of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 13 
ano less degree of attention from those who are capable of appreciating their 
importance. 
I could the whole of De Peysornel’s copy of this monument. I found it impossible, however, to 
extract from the chaotic jumble which he has left us from the fourteenth line throughout, any con- 
sistent series of notices. I endeavoured, but could not succeed to my satisfaction, to effect a more 
complete restoration of the whole. The utmost that can with any degree of probability be inferred 
from the monument in its existing state is, that it comprised a series of specific regulations as to 
the execution of certain works in Sardes, with which a committee of overseers had been charged, by 
virtue of an edict issued by the Proconsul, or a rescript on the part of the Emperor, and that such a 
course had been rendered necessary in consequence of the contractors’ neglect of duty, and certain 
obstructions that had been thrown in the way of the commissioners by parties, doubtless, who were 
interested in their failure. 
I now proceed to my observations on the second of the Pergamene inscriptions, or the twentieth 
of the series which are shortly to be published. 
Ihave expressed an opinion in my former Memoir, that the subject of this titulus was the 
Emperor Hadrian, and on this hypothesis I proposed certain readings in the passages where the 
marble from which I copied it had sustained more or less injury from age and the tools of the work- 
men, who had employed it for their purposes. 
I have, since the reading of that paper, reconsidered the subject in another point of view, with 
the help of the readings which I committed to writing on the spot, and the result has been a titulus 
coordinate to that which the travellers Smith* and Spon,® who have preceded me in that route, 
copied in the Acropolis of Pergamus, relating to a personage of consular rank, Julius Quadratus, 
who held many and distinguished offices in the reign of Trajan. 
His name will be found mentioned in the Consular Fasti in conjunction with Julius Candidus, in 
the eighth year of Trajan, and U. C. 858. 
If this view be correct, it will be necessary to inquire how far my readings sanction such changes 
in the titulus of which I have offered a translation in my first Memoir, as will adapt it to the cir- 
cumstances of Quadratus, or in other words, present a counterpart to the remarkable inscription with 
which Smith has furnished the learned author of The Acts and Monuments of the Arval Brothers, 
towards illustration of his celebrated work.° 
That this can be done, no one who bestows attention to the readings I have given can deny. It 
appears, moreover, from Smith’s titulus, that Quadratus had been Proconsul of Asia and Trajan’s 
Pro-prator of Syria ; that, so far, there is a correspondence between it and the inscription which 
Icopied. But, in addition to these and other offices, he is mentioned in the former as having 
been invested with the sacerdotal ones of Septemvir of the Epulones, and Frater Arvalis, and 
these can likewise be elicited, with a few unimportant changes, from my original series of readings. 
*See his Survey of the Seven Churches of Asia, p. 214. 
>See Voyage, etc. Tom. i. p. 328. Edit. de la Haye, 1724. 
Degli Atti e Monumenti de’ Fratelli Arvali, etc. Vol. i. tab. lvii. p. 176. 
