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of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 31 
in Asia Minor, to have been constructed, if not wholly, at least in great part, 
of the materials of previously existing edifices and monuments. Such, evidently, 
is the fragment from which Mr. Fellows copied the inscription that he has pub- 
lished in the second volume of his travels,* and which was pointed out to me by 
my attendant as we stood in front of the line of the arcades through which we 
passed into the inner court. He informed me at the same time that both this, 
and some others that exist amidst the ruins of the edifice had been copied by my 
predecessors in this route, an intelligence for which I had been prepared by the 
labours of Arundell, Pococke, and Walpole, within and around the site of 
Tralles.+ 
It is in this sense that I wish to be understood, when my statement in my 
former Memoir is read, namely, “that the site of Tralles supplied me with no 
tituli.”{ I meant, none which had not already been given to the public by 
the travellers whom I have mentioned. 
I may observe the same of Sultan-hissdr, the representative, not, as D’ An- 
ville has presumed, of Tvralles, but of the ancient Mysa, or rather the joint- 
representative, for the ruins of the latter occupy an intermediate position between 
two Turkish villages which lie on the southern slope of the Messogis ; of Nazli 
also, which the same distinguished geographer has erroneously made the successor 
of the Greek city, but which lies nearly a half-day’s journey distant from its site. 
I therefore conduct my auditory at once to Aphrodisias, which, though also 
pre-occupied ground, yet possesses remains of such beauty, and in such wonder- 
ful preservation, as to make it impossible for the traveller to consult his ease, or 
* See vol. ii. n.2, p. 17. 
J Comp. Pococke, Inser. Antig. Titt. i. iv. p. 17. Walpole, ii. p. 541. Arundell, Visvt, etc. 
pp: 357, 383. Classical Journ. vol. iv. p. 88. Boeckh. Corp. Inscr. n. 2639, ete. 
It was sufficiently strange, and proves the little attention which the first of these travellers paid 
to the monuments he visited, that he mistook altogether the site of Tralles. He made its present 
representative, Jha $jeS- yl, that of Magnesia ad Meandrum, as is clear from pp. 17, 32; 
but this oversight would have been at once rectified had he bestowed a moment’s attention on either 
of the inscriptions referred to above. 
The honour therefore of determining this site was (I believe) reserved for Chandler. 
{ Memoir, ubi supra, p. 127. I should mention, in addition to the names here referred to, 
that of Sir William Sherard, whose transcription of tituli at Atdin has been noticed by Colonel 
Leake in his Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor, p. 247. 
