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authorities, and the rest who are in office, 

 compel us to make contributions to them against 

 our will, and out of this it results that the temple 

 is deteriorated, and that we are in danger of 

 not having what is appointed for the sacrifices 

 and to be made for you and your children. 



We request of you, great Deities, as you are if it shall 

 seem good, to order Noumenuis your cousin and 

 Secretary for correspondence to write to Lochus 

 your cousin and general of the Thebaid, not to trouble 

 us in these things, not to suffer any other to do the 

 same, and to give us the necessary decrees to that 

 effect, and in these to permit us to set up a 

 Monument on which we may inscribe your 

 kindness to us upon these points that your favour 

 may be perpetuated upon it to all time. When this 

 shall be done we and the temple of Isis shall hold 

 ourselves obliged 



Fare ye well. " 



Not far distant from the obelisk stands a granite sarcophagus, 

 also brought from Egypt, which formerly contained a full length 

 mummy. The bronze lions were discovered during excavations at 

 Herculaneum.' The three fine cork trees are of great age, though 

 still in their prime. 



