vom 27. November 1865. 613 



Observe the Jota adscriptum in 7roix7rY,i and (<yv/.t)f««ijuj. 

 The ietters have the same forms as in No. I except a, which 

 in this inscrJption is written .A The surface, broken off on the 

 ieft-hand side, has been 4 — 7 centimetres Wide; that, broken off 

 on the right band, rather less. 



The first word, 0AIAEYS is evidenlly the name of the 

 individual, who is commemorated, and who is stated to have 

 been „the son of Apollodorus". Is Ocn^svg a Lycian name, or 

 is it, like Qsv^ag, a contracted and altered form of ©eo^w^o?? 



III. 



O AI 



AT lANGPop 



TA PONI 



NTE0EN I A0 



NT A Pn AE 



AETOYZ APPOE 

 MOIPANTAEENTET P NAP 

 TAß A TOIAPOAAn 



EINAIA 

 TP MENON GEH 



HßTOE AIA TO 



This third inscription has been much more injured and 

 obliterated than the other two. Its appearance leads me to 

 conjecture that it has been used to form part of a paveraent, 

 and that this third side has been turned up, whilst the other 

 two sides have been in part protected by being buried in the 

 earth. It orlginally contained 16 lines. From what remains it 

 appears to have been a hymn to Apollo, probably in Hexameters. 

 Thus as we may conjecture, the first inscription was a record 

 of the virtues of Apollodorus, the second was afterwards inscribed 

 in celebration of his son, Thaideus; and the third was added in 

 praise of their tutelary god, Apollo. This inscription is 40 centi- 

 metres high, 35 wide'.*) 



*) Von No. 3 wird kein Verständiger eine Herstellung verlangen; dafs 

 die Inschrift metrisch abgefafst gewesen sei, dafür möchte ich wenigstens 

 die Bürgschaft nicht übernehmen. Auch No. 2 ist in einer solchen Ver- 



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