262 Papers on a Latin Acrostic Inscription engraved 
(alluding to the difficulty Vespistan had in retiring from the city), being 
encompassed about, he and ten other soldiers privately crept into the 
house of a certain person, when he heard them talking at supper what the 
people intended to do against the Romans, or about themselves (for both 
the man himself and those with him were Syrians), so he got up in the night 
time and cut all their throats, and escaped together with his soldiers to the 
Romans.” 
I beg to remain, Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
H. J. Bower. 
No. 2. Extract from the Private Journal of Captain Perrr Rain, R.N., 
referred to in the preceding Letter. 
*« T sit down to answer the questions in your letter respecting the stone I 
brought from Nubia, I find, on referring to my journal, that I arrived at 
Kalabshe on the 16th December 1828, and made the following remarks on 
the temple :—‘ It is on a large scale, and evidently built from the ruins of 
an ancient temple erected by Tuorumus the Third. The present temple is 
Ptolemaic, but sculptured in the time of the Romans; the propylon is not 
detached, as is generally the case, but forms the entrance to the building, 
which it joins. You first enter a court nearly one hundred feet square, 
beyond which are four rooms of large dimensions (in the first of these was 
the stone bearing the inscription in question). From the paintings on the 
walls, this temple was evidently used as a Christian church at an early 
period; the representations are those generally seen in Greek churches, 
namely, God the Father, God the Son, numerous saints, and the horse of 
St. George: the hieroglyphics have been carefully plaistered over to enable 
them to depict the same; on removing the composition, ¢hey do not appear. 
to have been cut a week.’ The acrostic inscription, of which I sent you a 
copy, was engraved in the time of Hapriay, in honour of Gauuus, one of 
his generals. The stone when I brought it away, as near as I can state, 
was five hundred weight; at Cairo I bad it cut, and it now weighs about 
two hundred. It is a hard grey sand-stone. Above the inscription (in two 
places) the Greeks have cut the double triangle, I suppose by way of 
sanctifying it, previous to using the temple as a place of worship. This is 
all the information I can give you respecting it. 
