268 Rev. Dr. Watt on the different Kinds of Cuneiform Writing 
are identical, or very nearly so, with their Greek prototypes ; and those which 
correspond in shape agree also in power, with the exception of b, which appears 
to have been used in the Lycian system with the twofold value formerly attached 
to v, sometimes as digamma, or a consonant equivalent to our w, and at other 
times as a vowel, namely, the open wv, or Grecian ov. The following specimens 
of this writing will serve to give a notion of the character employed in it : 
APPPAVOS APPPAVO+:TEATEME JSTBTITALAY IER 
They are extracted from some of the inscriptions of this sort, collected by 
Charles Fellows, Esq., and exhibited in a volume of travels which he edited 
in 1841, accompanied by a brief examination of their contents, in an appendix, 
from the pen of Daniel Sharpe, Esq. The same specimens, written in equi- 
valent Greek letters, would respectively stand thus: Apmzmayos; Apmmayoouv 
reOnewe ; LnFn wacaov; Zepoon. ‘The first three—taken from the inscrip- 
tions on the stele, or pillar, at Xanthus, which are of great length, and all in 
this kind of writing, except eleven Greek lines on one of the sides*—denote 
respectively Harpagus, the son of Harpagus, and of the Pasha of Shahs, i.e. 
of the king of kings. In the Greek lines on this interesting monument, which 
unfortunately are not translations of any of the extant Lycian ones, the expres- 
sion, ‘the son of Harpagus,” occurs, written APTAFOYIOS, with the same 
form of the s7gma as in the Lycian part of the inscription, and in which the 
antiquity of the Greek writing is marked by the circumstance of the ov termi- 
nation of the genitive case being represented simply by o. At the same 
time, the use of the two kinds of 0, and two kinds of e, in this writing, shows 
* Since writing the above, I have been favoured by the Rev. Doctor James Kennedy Bailie, late 
Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, with a more accurate transcript of the Greek part of the 
Xanthian Inscriptions, made by him from a collation of the copy of Mr. Fellows with those of 
two other travellers. The Greek lines, twelve in number, are in hexameter and pentameter verse, 
though not so written in regular alternation; and it appears from them, that the name of the son 
of Harpagus in question was Ahersis. Dr. Kennedy Bailie’s talents for recovering the words 
aud sense of mutilated legends, as well as the correctness of his taste and extent of his classical 
learning, are very conspicuously displayed in two volumes of ancient inscriptions, restored and 
commented on by him, which were published in the years 1842 and 1846, under the modest titles, 
respectively, of Masciculus Inscriptionum Grecarum, and Fasciculus Inseriptionum, Greca- 
rum potissimum ;—works which well deserve the attention of those who take an interest in the 
subjects to which they relate. 
