44 Dr. Kennepy Baitie’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
The above had doubtless occupied some conspicuous position, on the pedestal 
of a statue which had been erected to the honour of Attalus. As little respect, 
however, has been paid to his memory by the Christian inhabitants of Aphrodisias, 
as to those of the other distinguished personages of its heathen annals, whose 
monuments form an almost uninterrupted line along the circle of the ramparts. 
He was a Synkletikos, and therefore of an order superior to the Buleute, 
the distinction between which has been proved by Eckhel* to consist in this, 
that the one conferred senatorial, the other only municipal rank. This title 
occurs in another inscription amongst those I copied, in conjunction with the 
well-known Hypatikos, or Consularis ; and there is room for conjecture for the 
same usage having been observed with regard to it, as to the latter, namely, that 
it was as frequently as otherwise conferred as a mark of rank without reference 
to the abstract term. Thus there are numerous instances of persons being styled 
Consulars who had never been advanced to the dignity of Consuls, as for example, 
in one of the inscriptions which I copied at Philadelphia, and submitted lately to 
the inspection of the Academy. 
This Aphrodisian inscription has been published by Mr. Fellows, between 
whose copy and mine there appear two differences, but of no great moment. He 
reads Domitinus amongst the names of the Father of Attalus, confessing at the 
same time that it is of very rare occurrence. I can only state, that I think my 
copy; in the present instance, to be correct. 
Again, I read ASTAPXIEPEQ® in the fourth and fifth lines; the Lycian 
traveller, on the other hand, AZIAZ APXIEPEQ®. I only remark, that the 
more usual form in which this title was written, when its parts were separated, 
was apxlepeds aolas, or THs aotas, and so accordingly we find it in one of 
the tituli which I have brought from the site of Teos,{ and in another which Mr. 
Arundell has included in the list of his Eumenian inscriptions.¢ 
The form which I have given possesses moreover an additional recommen- 
dation, from its similarity to that of axvapxns, with which I regard aovapxeepevs 
* Doctr. Num. Vet., vol. iv. p. 190. See also Béckh. C. J. n. 2926. Gruter. Inscr. 400, 8, 
and 401, 1, referred to in Mr. Fellows’ volume, Tit. 40, p. 330. 
+ See Transactt., vol. xix. p. 128. Frascic. Inscr., Tit. iy. p. 32. 
t Vid. supr. p. 24. § See Visit to the Churches, etc., p. 349. 
