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XVII. Remarks on some Inscriptions found in Lycia and Phrygia. 
By Dr. G. F. Grorerenn, F.M.R.A.S. 
Read 19th of March 1831. 
From the little information in our possession concerning the Lycian and 
Phrygian language and character, it was very gratifying to find some light 
thrown on the subject by the discovery of certain inscriptions, for which we 
are indebted to Messrs. CockErRELL, CartyLz, and Colonel Leake; and 
fac-similes of which have been published by Mr. Roserr Waxrote.* The 
valuable information which these inscriptions promised to afford for the 
illustration of the Archeology of Asia Minor, induced the French scholars, 
MM. Lerronye and Saint-Martin, to republish them in the Journal des 
Savans,t and to add many new observations upon them to those previously 
recorded by Mr. Warrote.t Notwithstanding, however, the numerous 
explanations given by these scholars of these inscriptions, which Mr. 
Watpote thought it impossible to decypher, and how far soever the per- 
plexities of them may have been overcome, especially by M. Saint-Martin, 
still there are many particulars which will allow of different views being 
entertained ; and so far, therefore, it may not be altogether superfluous to 
submit the whole to a new and careful investigation. 
As there is among the Lycian inscriptions one Jnscriptio bilinguis, which 
opens the way to understand the remainder, we naturally begin with that. 
Not only from the resemblance of the characters, but also from the great 
similarity of the contents, we combine with the Inscriptio bilinguis (which, 
according to Mr. CockERELL, was met with near the city of Phineca, 
among the ruins of the ancient Lycian city of Myra, on a marble sepulchre 
rivalling the most tasteful architecture of the Athenian master-pieces), 
three other inscriptions engraven on tombs of no less beauty at Kakava, in 
* Travels in various Countries of the East, by Roperr WALpoxe: Vol. II. 4to. London, 
1820-4. 
+ October 1820, p.624, and April 1821, p. 248, 
{ Travels, &c. p. 526. 
