of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 53 
before the notice of the Academy, the sepulchral. I therefore refrain from 
making any further observations on the other inscriptions of the honorary class 
which I possess, as they are mostly all expressed according to the same formula, 
and afford but little information of a verbal nature, distinct from the notices 
which they contain of personages and their respective families, which might be 
useful were it my object to write a history of the city, or present my hearers with 
an outline of its municipal transactions. 
The reason why the entaphial inscriptions possess a peculiar value is, because 
they detail with great minuteness the modes in which the right of sepulture was 
secured to this or that particular person, to the exclusion of all others ; the com- 
partments which had been so assigned in each instance; the legal forms to which 
the founders had recourse to maintain their rights inviolate; as also, in certain 
cases, the religious ceremonies which were requisite. To bring these before the 
view of my learned auditory, in as brief and satisfactory a form as circumstances 
admit, shall now be my care, and for this purpose I select from the number of 
those I have copied one in particular, to which, as a type of the rest, on a con- 
siderably enlarged scale, I may direct their attention. 
The following is the translation of this titulus, as complete as it can be made 
from the existing state of the monument : 
Eudamus,* son of Apellas [?], son of [Zeno ?], son of Zeno, son of Eudamus [was the founder 
of this monument], and 
Of the sarcophagus resting on it, wherein, that is, in the sarcophagus, are to be buried 
(himself, the aforesaid, | and 
Aurelia Tatia, daughter of Papias, the pancratiast, son of Pereitas, and 
Aurelius Dionysius, sixth in descent from Chrysogonus, son of Tatia, daughter [of Papias, 
and | 
5. Aurelius, his children also, Apellas and Eumachiana, and Aufrelia, daughter of « * * * and 
Tib]erius Claudius Achilles, son of Tolmides, his wife: [but in the underlying } 
Compartments are to be buried those to whom Eumachus may be pleased to grant per- 
mission * * * * 
To be laid therein, and his posterity alone ; but no one else [is to enjoy the privilege 
Of enclosing any one] in the sarcophagus, or of removing it ; neither is he to have the power 
[of allowing to another the use of the sarcophagus], 
* Professor Béckh (Corp. Incr. n. 2834) proposes to read here EYMAXOS, on the authority 
of the seventh line. But EYAAMOZ most certainly appeared on the marble. 
