326 Dr. Grorrerenn on Inscriptions found in Lycia and Phrygia. 
Nephelis,* runs thus V#F RA SAA, it will appear that among the Lycians 
the digamma had the sound of the Latin f; according to which, the second 
word of the bilingual inscription should be read thus: irefeéeje. There 
is as much reason for comparing this word with the Greek jje/v, as for com- 
paring the first word of the other inscriptions, 7b7ény, to the Syriac abana, 
a tombstone. The second word of the second and third inscriptions should 
be read prénajé rather than baénafe, as M. Satnt-Martin reads it. At least 
the second inscription has clearly a [1 at the beginning of the word, and the 
additional point, in the third inscription, probably indicates, that instead of 
B properly II should be written. The succeeding letter, which in the second 
inscription is imperfectly written, is clearly a P, an opinion corroborated 
by the fact that the word is thus similar to the fourth, prénefaty. If the 
last character but one in the second inscription be not incorrectly written, 
like several of the preceding ones, it must be taken as a Greek Z, and 
accordingly the word must be read prénapazy. Now taking préna/é in the 
sense of edificium or edificatum, prénwfaly may stand for the participle 
edificandum, and the preceding word mite or myte for an aorist, correspond- 
ing to the Latin curavit. Tle last word of the third inscription has a 
similar termination, but its commencement is as difficult to define as to 
decypher. M. Sarnt-Martin reads the peculiar addition to the third in- 
scription anapareklé phchetafata, without however attempting any translation 
of it. 
According to the preceding definition, we must read the first word thus: 
ynypirekle. We cannot take the succeeding letter for , especially as we 
have already recognized the digamma as its substitute in the medals of 
Nephelis. If we determine the signification of the character by its form, 
it can be nothing else than =, which those who find Xchétafeta too 
difficult to pronounce, may draw to the foregoing word. Although this is 
almost the only case in which a word of the Lycian inscriptions terminates 
with a consonant, yet the whole addition may perhaps be explained as an 
incantation, if we can compare chéqfwta with the Milesian term of magic, 
Chthyptes. The Telchinians, with whom Lycust built the temple to 
Arotto near the Xanthus, are called magicians by the Greek grammarians, 
and the name of Te/missus (whose astrologers we are told+ were con- 
sulted by Cra@sus), seems to signify “a city of Talismans.” We further 
* Mionnet, Descr. de Méd. Antiq. t. iii. p. 596. 
‘+ Diodor. vy. 56. + Herod. i. 78. 
