58 Dr. Kennepy Baiute’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
the sarcophagus. We might here have expected éreec@arwv, but I am confi- 
dent that this was not the reading.* 
(c.) I now proceed to my third head, which relates to the legal, or as they 
may be termed, the municipal, provisions mentioned in this epigraph. 
We find it stated, that a counterpart (avt/ypadov) of the document was en- 
tered in a certain registry office called the Chreophylakion, during a certain 
magistracy, and in a certain month. The exact day was given, but here, as in 
other parts, the inscription was illegible. 
The first of these procedures appeared to have been necessary, in order to 
secure the founder’s property in the monument. We find, in the similar in- 
scriptions of Thyatira, the same formality explicitly mentioned ; but in the pre- 
sent instance, indeed in all which Aphrodisias supplies, instead of APXEION, 
we meet with XPEOP®YAAKION. This, as its name implies, was the office in 
Aphrodisias, in which all deeds, bonds, or, as we should express it, judgments 
affecting real or personal property, were deposited, with a view to securing it to 
the purchaser or the mortgagee. Without this procedure neither the erector, 
nor the purchaser of a right of sepulture, nor the lender of money on the security 
of lands or tenements, appeared to have made what we would call a safe invest- 
ment of the purchase-money. We find it, accordingly, occurring in another 
document of the same class with that which I have been elucidating, wherein 
there appears to have been mentioned a cession of a right of burial, or perhaps a 
transference of tomb-property, on the part of the erector of a monument or his 
* The reader will find this subject adverted to in my Fasciculus Inscriptionum, pp. 73, s. and 
in the part of my Auctariwm which relates to the 7th of the Thyatirene tituli. 
‘Yrordpsov and Sépsev have been here added from Mr. Fellows’ volume, Tit. lv. 10, clxxsii. 6, 
exciii. 2, In the second of these I conjectured at first sais 3 é dxderac, thus introducing a new 
émak reyiuever into the Lexicons, to express the cells of the radras But this reading I now think 
to be hardly tenable. 
We deduce, additionally to the above, ézogiov, from Pococke, Inscr. Antiq. p. 23, n. 12, and 
éyyzov, from an inscription quoted from Patin by Van Dale, Dissert. y. c. 1, p- 375. This last we 
also find in certain inscriptions from Alabanda in Mr. Fellows’ work, p. 57. 
It served, perhaps, the same purpose with the urns mentioned by Abp. Potter (Arch@ol. Grac., 
lib. iv. c. 6), namely, to preserve the ashes of the dead, Adgvanec, (comp. Iliad, #, 795.,) sarobiixcs, 
arrodoxtie, xewrcot, etc. 
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