54 Dr. Kennepy Baiwiz’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
10. Or of the tomb itself, or of the compartment separate from it; neither is he to devise any ex- 
pedient [whereby it may be alienated ] 
Under any pretence whatsoever ; but after the burial [of all the aforesaid] 
The monument is to be converted into a Heroum; whereupon, should any person attempt 
either to bury [any one in the sarcophagus], or in 
The compartments, or to move the sarcophagus, or to act in any wise contrary [to these 
provisions ] 
Let the delinquent himself, and he who engages with him, be accounted a tomb-breaker, 
[and impious, and] 
15. Accursed, and let them, namely, the delinquent, and he who [engages with him], be bound 
to pay [to the treasury ] 
Of the Roman people, ten thousand denaria of silver, and not less, The Heroum 
[Is to be consecrated} after the burial [of all] the aforesaid therein. A copy 
Of this epigraph was entered in the Chreophylakion, [during the Stephanephoria of Ze[no, 
Fifth in descent from Archimedes, [on the th] of the month of Trajanus Augustus. 
This most valuable and interesting inscription was copied so long ago as 
1705 by Sir William Sherard, during his excursion through this quarter of Asia 
Minor, accompanied by the British Chaplain, the Rev. John Tisser, Dr. Picenini, 
and two of the leading merchants of Smyrna, and has been published from his 
MSS. (which form part of the Harleian collection) by the learned Professor 
Bockh, and more recently by Mr. Fellows,* from personal inspection of the 
monument. I found it in the same position which it then occupied, namely, in 
the exterior face of the wall where it bends to the south-east, but so buried in 
the heap of rubbish which had accumulated at its base, that it cost me a good 
deal of trouble to have it removed. This operation was superintended by me 
under the influence of a noon-day sun in the month of August, an inconvenience, 
as I can assure my auditory, of no slight amount, in the latitude of Aphrodisias. 
This, as well as the injuries which the stone had sustained from the me- 
chanical process of copying that had been adopted by my predecessors in the 
labour, cost me three successive visits to the spot, and considerable exertion of 
my visual organs to elicit the true readings. I can only add, that I think I have 
succeeded in my object. 
I have compared my copy with that given to the public by Mr. Fellows in 
his interesting volume, whose editor has followed Professor Bockh in his ex- 
* Ubi supra, Tit. xliy. p. 338. Compare Bickhii, Corp. Incr. n. 2834. 
