34 Dr. Kennepy Baiuir’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
existence of what appears to have been the Baptisterium in those times, the font 
of which lies imbedded in the ruins in front of the northern facade. It was 
elaborately sculptured, with an inner basin of about eight feet and a half in 
diameter, and widening out to the brim to one of about twelve. 
Independently of these remains, there exist others between the base of the 
ancient acropolis and the ground in the immediate vicinity of the amphitheatre, 
which mark perhaps the site of the Agora. ‘These occupy a space lying to the 
east of the temple, but are, as I conceive, at too great a distance from it to allow 
the supposition, that they had been connected with that edifice. The line which 
these columns form, would, if produced, intersect an area near the amphitheatre, 
where I copied an inscription from a pedestal, which in all probability occupies 
its original position, and if so, with equal probability marks the site of the Forum. 
This titulus I have not been able to discover in the very ample collection 
which Mr. Fellows has published in his second volume of travels. Whether it 
exists amongst the number of those which Professor Boeckh has given from the 
MSS. of the late Sir William Sherard, I have had as yet no means of ascertain- 
ing. 
The following is a literal translation of this document, which had been un- 
fortunately so mutilated towards the close as to baffle all my attempts to decipher 
the characters. This is the more to be regretted, as the deficient portion contained 
the name of the personage to whom the state had decreed one of its most distin- 
guished honours. 
The most estimable 
Chief Archon, twice 
Questor, Registrar 
Of the people, twice Chief-Trustee- 
5. Of-the-temple of the goddess Aphro- 
dite, on several occasions Aed- 
ile, and who had discharged the 
duties of the highest magistracies ; 
who had also in his other official 
10. capacities performed good 
service to the city of his birth ; 
a kinsman of Tiberius Claudius 
Aurelius Cape- 
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