of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 63 
Gymnasiarchs, so also do we meet with Stephanephore of the same sex. One 
of Sherard’s inscriptions from Aphrodisias, which has been published both by 
Professor Boeckh and Mr. Fellows, makes mention of a lady who had been Ste- 
phanephoros for the thirteenth time. Another, which I likewise saw on the 
same side (the west) records her ninth Stephanephoria.* 
Doubtless, the wealth and liberality of this member of the female aristocracy 
of Aphrodisias, were the concurrent causes of this enviable distinction. The 
superintendence of religious ceremonies, with all their accessary pomp of public 
festivals and games, afforded ample room for the display of both, and, as in the 
instance of the Asiarchate, rendered their possession an essential preliminary to 
investiture with the honours of the magisterial diadem. 
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This concludes the notices which I have selected for the present occasion, 
relative to the tituli of Aphrodisias. Such as involve mere verbal criticism are 
better reserved for the private study of those whose tastes or professional pursuits 
lead them to take an interest in such discussions, but would be very much out of 
place under my present circumstances. I cannot, however, take my leave of this 
ancient Carian site without expressing it as my opinion with respect to its monu- 
ments, that they merit a higher degree of attention than as yet they seem to have 
experienced. The temple of Aphrodite alone would form a study worthy of the 
professional architect. In its original state the edifice must have been splendid 
in the extreme, and no small proportion of its beauty was due to the position 
which it occupied, and which was admirably chosen for setting off its details to 
the best advantage. Indeed, the site of the ancient city was throughout one of 
rare beauty, occupying the plain which opens out from the spurs (as they are 
termed) or the secondary hills of the magnificent Cadmean range, on the most 
western of which the Acropolis seems to have been placed. ‘The impression 
which was made upon me as I emerged from the valley which is enclosed between 
the streams of Yeni-shéhir and Kdrasi, and pursued my course eastward over 
the plain, will not soon be effaced from my remembrance. Ina higher and a 
* See note t, p- 46, supr. particularly the authorities mentioned at the close, and compare with 
Boeckh, C. Inscr. 2829. Fellows, ubi supra, Titt. xlii., xliii. 16, p. 333, where this inscription has 
been given. 
