Dr. Grorerenp on Inscriptions found in Lycia and Phrygia. 331 
however, it is difficult to say, unless a portion of the first part of the word 
stands in relation to the latter part of the word Sikememan, which possibly 
signifies the expenses or charges. The passage might therefore be thus 
translated: ‘* The superintendent of the payments, Prorravus, gave the 
stone; Asasis the charges of the workmanship.” Uncertain as ail this 
may still remain, thus much is clear, that the monument is much more 
modern than the period about which king Mrpas lived, by whom we may 
reasonably understand the old king Mipas, whose memory it was wished to 
preserve even in later times. If we may compare the Armenian with the 
Phrygian, it would perhaps be more correct to read gafagtaei than lafagtae?, 
by which, according to the Armenian khaghakh (city) might be meant the 
founder of a city. From all these remarks it results, that the Phrygian lan- 
guage is the intermediate link in the family of Indo-Germanic tongues, 
its words and inflections bordering as closely on the Greek, as the written 
characters are manifestly Grecian. This is further corroborated by the near 
relationship of the Phrygians with the Thracians, from whom proceeded 
the original cultivation of Greece. The Ztruscans, on the contrary, who 
are usually derived from Lydia, have nothing in common with the Phrygians 
either in language or writing. 
