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long interval from sere eb ly gat an interval which 
can be hardly set down as less n fifty years, considering the 
long series of inscriptions Hes were engraved therein. As 
Antialcidas must be referred to the latter half of the second 
century B.C., the railings of Stipa I at Safichi can hardly be 
brought dawet to any date later than 200-150 B.C. In any case 
with the evidence available at present, it does not seem possible 
to come to any other conclusion. 


with ite vis to the amount they waia’ (ii) By £ first seahing them 
and then asking the public to contribute towards the expenses in 
the ate ans of paying the costs of their different parts which could be 
easily calculated in this case. It seems, however, to be almost certain 
or, i at cas Id 
ney paid by them would be sufficient to cover their cost. According 
to thi ni ethan it auld naturally take a number of yeare to realise the 
amount, and it may be, that the whole amount could never be 
aid at ae a fact testified to by the absence of the donors’ name in 
eee : 
for the engravings would then be a matter, more ess, of private 
concern, and extend over a pretty lon 7 pai with ineartata intervals, 
so as to make it impossible for any gon ie body to adopt a definite 
i donors. 
judgi 
mple, we should be guided by the more archaic characters rather 
the more advanced form =f which might have been —— on the ee 
long after ips was constructed. In any case the prese of advanced 
forms in on two in ee shou id not be a bowed a modity: the 
view about” thie dee of t he building which may re formed by a careful 
consideration of the generality of the inscriptions. 
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