of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 47 
which Mr. Fellows has published.* It was copied from the tomb of a female 
the upper part of which exhibits reliefs of gymnastic exercises. But the evidence 
which it affords of the fact under consideration is, as I have stated, imperfect, as 
the introduction of the word apyvepeias in the commencement of the titulus is 
wholly the editor’s own. 
I have observed also amongst Mr. Arundell’s inscriptions one from Me- 
tropolis,t in the eleventh line of which an equally obscure indication of this re- 
cognition of female influence may be traced. But in this case also the mutilated 
state in which the document appears precludes all possibility of exact inference. 
An argument, however, of a much more cogent nature is derivable from 
one of the ¢itwli,{ which I have submitted to the notice of the Academy in the 
commencement of this Memoir. It is, therefore, unnecessary for me to enlarge 
further on this point than merely to observe, that the evidence of the Teian in- 
scription appears so conclusive as to leave no doubt remaining on the subject. 
At least, I trust that, as far as our present research is concerned, all doubt has 
been dissipated ; and this, as well for the establishment of an interesting fact, as for 
the sake of Greco-Roman civilization ; for it is, I believe, pretty generally con- 
ceded, that this condition of society is high or low in its degree in a direct pro- 
portion to that in which the rights of woman are acknowledged or disregarded. 
A more convincing proof of the truth of this axiom could not be desired than the 
melancholy contrast which these countries now exhibit. 
My next inscription was also copied from the east side. The stone on 
which it appeared was once the pedestal of a statue. The following translation 
exhibits as nearly as possible the order of the lines in the original : 
thus honoured were an important ground of consideration, all these offices entailing expenses which 
it required no ordinary fortune to bear. 
The reader is referred to the following authorities for these statements. Chandler, Znscr. Antiq., 
p- 19, m. 54. Osann. Syllog. Inscriptt. (ex Marm. Elgin.) p. 166, ». 59. 1. p. 350, ii. 12, 5. 
Eckhel. Num. Vet. Anecd., p. 248. Doctr. Num., vol. iv. p. 217. 
* «Discoveries in Lycia,” p. 185, Tit. 131. Compare p. 68, T. 80. 
+ “ Visit to the Churches,” etc., p. 347, n. 5. 
¢ See above, p. 24. 
