330 Dr. Grorerenn on Inscriptions found in Lycia and Phrygia. 
inscription ; in the second, on the contrary, twice, to which may be added 
also the termination is in Memefais. But whether the different subjects be 
names of persons or indications of rank, is not perfectly clear; and it is 
also difficult to ascertain how the first word of the first inscription (which 
we must consider as one compounded from several, because at the beginning 
of it, according to the traces on the monument, there must be something 
wanting), is to be reduced to its simple elements. As an accusative is 
wanting in the first inscription, which in the second seems to be indicated 
by Sikememan, after iaefafaken a distinction might be made, so that Anoggfos 
would remain as the proper subject of the first inscription. Let us compare 
the beginning of the first inscription...éaefafaken with the similarly mutilated 
commencement of the first Lycian inscription iej@ ir@fwéa, and further 
take into consideration that this word might also have been pronounced thus, 
iwafeeeje ; and that in the Phrygian language, as is clear from a comparison 
of the word Fosexrs with A«Fayras, the F has also the value of a digamma, 
and soft letters are likewise hardened ; we shall then be inclined to con- 
jecture that the sense of the inscription is: “This monument Anocavus 
consecrated to king Mrpas Lavagtaes.” 
What this last word signified, and whether the first letter of the same be 
rightly interpreted or not, must be left for others to decide. But edae 
may be compared with the Greek dx:, or the Latin dedit, particularly as also 
in Armenian dam still signifies, ‘ I give.” 
The second inscription is more difficult, yet the word /phizanafezos 
may perhaps be divided into xoiday and aF:oc, and the first of these 
considered as the accusative of the Carian word yicce or peyiccew, which, 
according to STePHANus,* signified a stone. In this case the sense 
might be, that Baba Memefais Proitafos had given the stone, and Afezos 
the expenses of the workmanship (Sikememan). But it will still remain 
uncertain whether Afezos was the name of a man or of a place. The 
latter is likely, if by Baba Memefais Proitafos any dignity is designated. 
Strazso t names a district ’ABacir¢ in this part. Although AtHenzus t 
mentions Babys among other Phrygian names, yet Baba in so many lan- 
guages signifies father, that we may even here imagine a kind of Phrygian 
nobility, especially as zporre:Fos seems so similar to the Greek rparog or revravic, 
though Homer § names a noble Lycian Prytanis. What Memefais means, 
* De Urbibus, s. v. Merdyicras + XII. 5, 11. { XIV. 18. § Il. v. 678. 
