Dr. Grorerenp on Inscriptions found in Lycia and Phrygia. 329 
by the identity of their final words, to one language and character, but were 
cut at very different periods, as we infer from the rounded form of the A 
and D in the more modern inscription. The oldest inscription, which is 
above the gable roof to the right, and like it, slants upwards, is as follows : 
!AEFAFAKSFA MOTA Fos: /°JAAI: KAFATTAAI3FAMAKT FI: 
FAAE. 
The more modern inscription, which is cut in a line downwards on the 
left side of the monument, runs thus: 
BA BA: MAMEFA If Pol TA FOS KPI NAMA FE N03 33] KEMEMAN: 
KAA: 
Besides these, Hamitton has given the following fragment of an inscrip- 
tion as an Appendix to his #gyptiaca. It is deserving of a place here, on 
account of the resemblance of the language and writing to the foregoing. 
AZ:TYAY-------- FNISIA FiF $V Pfo SoM: TIN: 
The great similarity of the characters to the Greek, leaves no great doubt 
as to the way of reading them; yet the twelfth character of the first inscrip- 
tion, if judged by the middle character of the fourth word of the second, 
would seem to be rather an N, like the tenth character, than an R, for 
which M.Sainr-Marrin has takenit. In Latin letters, the inscriptions run 
thus : 
1, TArEFAFAKENANOGAFOS. MIDAI. LAFAGTAEI. FANAKTEI. EDAE. 
2. BABA. MEMEFAIS. PROITAFOS. KPHIZANAFEZOS. SIKEMEMAN. EDAES. 
Fe AA SUT VAN s onus suite ENIS. AE. ESYRGOSOSI. TIN. 
In the first inscription, the words Midc: Favaxr:: are too clearly similar to 
the Greek Midz Favaxz1, not to induce a belief that the inscription relates to 
the king Minas, or a king of the Gordian dynasty, which ruled in Phrygia 
between 740 and 570 A.C. Ifso, Lafagtaei, which divides those words, would 
be a surname of that king in the dative case, to distinguish him from another 
Mripas; and what stands before the name Midai would then denote him 
who founded the monument. ‘The last word edae is then a verb, as is the 
last word of the second inscription edaes: yet, whether both words are 
alike, or whether the shorter is the singular, and the longer the plural, cannot 
be determined by a comparison with Greek words, as 4i%: and 2aiéav, 
as little suited by signification as by form to the Phrygian inscriptions, but 
it can only be decided according to the number of the subjects. If os be 
regarded as the termination of the subject, we find it only once in the first 
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