50 Dr. Kennepy Baiutz’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
considerable space in front of it, of which number shafts of colums with spiral 
fluting, and capitals, are the most numerous, we should conclude that much of 
the magnificence of the ancient city was congregated within these precincts. 
Tituli are also, in this immediate neighbourhood, crowded together in a most 
embarrassing profusion, on both the interior and exterior faces of the wall. I 
observed the remains of one which had been sculptured on the abacus of an 
Ionic column, but is now nearly illegible. The singularity of its position attracted 
my attention, and I paused for some time in my progress along the rampart to 
examine its contents. 
I thought I could trace with tolerable distinctness the first two petitions of 
the Lord’s prayer, but in an inverted order,* on two consecutive faces of the 
abacus: EAGETQ H BASIAIA (i. e. BASIAEIA) SOY . TO ONOMA 
OY ATIASOHTQ. Nearly in juxtaposition with this monument, and built 
into one of the lower courses of the wall, to the left of the portal as it was en- 
tered, I observed a mutilated inscription TOIIOZ ®IAOGE . . , the place loved 
by God, that is, dedicated to his worship. 
I should conclude from all this, that a Christian temple had occupied some 
spot in the immediate vicinity of this gate, and one that either had been erected 
from the spoils of some pre-existing heathen edifice, or had been adapted there- 
from to the purposes of Christian worship. 
However this may be, the monument of which I have spoken—the inscribed 
capital—goes hand in hand with many other relics of the same kind observable 
in this ancient site, in marking the transition which took place from the impure 
Aphrodisian idolatry to the religion of the Gospel. Indeed, in exact proportion 
to the zeal of the pagan devotee was that which animated the Christian patrician 
of the town; not only were the monuments of the former either defaced, or made 
subservient to holier purposes, but, as we have seen, the very name of the city 
* This, it is clear, may have arisen from the position of the capital as it lay when I examined it. 
The inscription encircled the upper part, and the inversion may not have existed when the column 
was in its erect position, and wholly exposed to view. 
I subjoin a fac-simile of the titulus, in order to enable the reader to judge of the probability of 
my conjecture. I mean, of course, of that part of it which lay uppermost. 
0 x = Milli CaaLAVCO)ara||RaAae: CaP e aN(Or x x KK 
