of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 19 
the sixth line, this beginning with ZYATAX, that is, AZYAIA. Mention is 
also evidently made, in the twelfth line, of a Delphian of the name of Agelaon ; 
in the fifteenth, of a person named Astyanax, in connexion with a people, which 
J entertain no doubt was that of Cos; and, in the last line, either of the Tyr- 
rhenians, with whom we all are familiar, or, more probably, of the Polyrrhenians, 
a Cretan people noticed by Strabo, and, from the circumstance of their neigh- 
bourhood, very likely to have been here introduced.* 
All these scattered notices conduct us at once to the purport of the inscrip- 
tion, namely, that it was designed to perpetuate the claim of the Teians to the 
privileges of asylumship, by its reciting the names of the several states, or the 
distinguished citizens of the several communities, with which they had, from time 
to time, ratified treaties interchanging that right. 
The conclusion from all this appears to me far from unreasonable, which is, 
that a copy of this document had been produced by the embassadors of the city ~ 
in the presence of the Roman Senate, to which council Tiberius had referred 
them for final adjudication as to their claims. 
The narrative which Tacitus has left us of the proceedings of the Emperor 
on this occasion affords the best commentary I could select. I therefore adduce 
it in evidence of what I have stated. 
* My copy here is I10%*PPHNIQN, which may have been either ATIOTYPPHNION, or 
TIOAYPPHNION. I prefer the latter of these. Express mention is made by Strabo of this district 
of Crete, which lay towards the western shore of the island, and was remarkable for its sanctuary of 
Dictynna, to which a reference was probably made is this part of the titulus. 
One of their autonomous coins presents on the obverse a head of Jupiter crowned with laurel, 
and on the other side, an ox’s head filleted, which Eckhel explains, as Suidas had done, by the 
custom of the Cretans’ celebrating religious festivals in the neighbourhood of this place. Doctr. 
Num. Vet. vol. ii. p. 318. 
The learned Chishull has published, amongst his other tituli, from the researches of Sherard and 
Lisle in the years 1709 and 1716, decrees establishing mutual rights of asylum between the Teians 
and various cities of Crete, amongst which Polyrrhenium is expressly mentioned. See the preamble 
in Antiqg. Asiat. Inser, vii. p. 121. 
This circumstance in particular appears to remove all doubt as to the true reading in the last 
line of the titulus which I copied, and which, doubtless, was of the same import with those published 
by Chishull. 
T See Tacitus, ubi supra, cc. 60, 63. 
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