18 Dr. Kennepy Baitit’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
two, and most probably three, of the five which I have collected, belong to Tos ; 
one, because it was copied from ruins on the actual site ; another, because it 
contains evidence, which to me is satisfactory, and which I hope to make equally 
so to my learned audience, of it marking the position of the Dionysiac temple, 
which Vitruvius* mentions as one of the chief ornaments of Zeos. The third, 
to which I have alluded as of uncertain reference, was copied from the super- 
structure of one of those draw-wells which meet the traveller on the way to 
Stvry-Hissdr, but from the notices which it contams, can hardly be referred to 
any other locality excepting one of great municipal importance. As to the others 
I can state nothing with confidence; they were likewise copied from well- 
mouths, but have been so utterly defaced and mutilated, that it is impossible 
to extract anything certain from the indistinct notices which they contain. I 
present them merely as archeological specimens, and evidences of a traveller's 
zeal in a good cause. 
The first of these tituli is a document of exceeding interest, and referrible, 
as I conceive, to an early date; at least early when compared to the Graco- 
Roman inscriptions. I should pronounce it to be one of the muniments which 
the cities of Asia were required to produce in the reign of Tiberius, in order to 
the establishment of their several claims to the right of sanctuary}. The forms of 
the characters, more especially of the Sigma, (which is =), so far from approxi- 
mating to the rectangular or semicircular outline that tituli of a more recent 
period so frequently exhibit, carry us back to a period even anterior to the 
Roman conquest. The dialect, moreover, appears to be the same with that of 
the ancient inscriptions which Sherard and Lisle copied in the territory of Teos 
so far back as 1709 and 1716, and which have been given to the public by the 
learned Edmond Chishull in his Antiguitates Asiatice. The fragment here 
presented merits a distinguished place in that collection, as one of the monumen- 
tal jura of this sacred district. 
It commences with a distinct notice of an AZYAON, which is repeated in 
* See Architect. lib. iii. c. 2. p. 90, and vii. Preefat. p. 193, Ed. Bip. Pococke’s collection of 
Inscriptions contains a mutilated one of some length from this site, but which has been, as was but 
too usual with that learned traveller, most inaccurately copied. It is no longer in existence, at least 
I was unable to discover ii, 
+ Compare Tacit. Annal. iii, 60. ss. Sueton, Tiber, xxxvii. 
