32 Dr. Kennepy Barwie’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
defer to his predecessors. It is now considerably more than a century since Sir 
William Sherard visited this site, and transferred its most important fitu/i to his 
pages; and very recently, the Lycian traveller, Mr. Fellows, has gleaned amply 
from the same field.* Yet these considerations discouraged me not from pausing 
in my progress on the scene of their labours; I could not avert myself from the 
shrine of its tutelary, nor rest satisfied with a transient and listless glance at its 
memorials of past ages, nor close my ear to the accents which issued on all sides 
from those eloquent chroniclers of human sympathies, the altar, the pedestal, and 
the tomb. 
One thing however the labours of my predecessors had made it quite un- 
necessary for me to attempt, a perfect collection of the ¢2éwli existmg on the site 
of Aphrodisias. All that I proposed to myself, after the researches of Sherard, 
was, to form such a selection as would admit of my illustrating in essential par- 
ticulars, the history and the polity of the city. Icontented myself therefore 
with some fifteen or twenty of these records amidst the multitudes which attract 
the traveller’s attention on all sides, from the moment he enters the gate of 
Constantius on his way from the site of Antiocheia. These can hardly be said 
to amount to more than a fifth part of those actually existing, whereof the greater 
number are observable amidst the ruins of the wall that surrounded the town, 
the interior and exterior faces of which present an almost uninterrupted series of 
inscribed or sculptured blocks, evidently the spoils of the previously existing 
monuments of the city, whose name announced the object of its worship. It 
should appear, that no sooner had the citizens of Aphrodisias relinquished their 
idolatrous rites, than they repudiated also the title which recorded them, com- 
mencing at the same time the work of demolition amongst the monuments of 
* The late Sir W. Sherard, who was appointed by the Levant Company their Consul in 1702, 
appears to have entered this field of research with great ardour. Chishull states expressly that he 
has been mainly indebted to his and Lisle’s labours during two several excursions from Smyrna, 
made in the years 1709 and 1716. The interesting tituli which he has published, from the site of 
Teos, in his Antiqg. Asiatt., afford examples of this. 
Professor Boeckh has also transcribed from Sherard’s MS. the very complete series of Aphrodisian 
tituli which he has published in his Corpus Inscriptt., and which, as I have already stated, are now 
preserved in the British Museum. 
Mr. Fellows’ collection is also very ample, extending from n. 13, to n. 72, of his second volume. 
But I am inclined to think that the field of research in this quarter is by no means as yet exhausted. 
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