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GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



XVII. 



Found at Ciparissia, in the Morea. From Mr. Hawkins. 



TO KOINON T&N EAET0EPOAAKX2NJ2N 

 TAION IOTAION AAK&NA ETPTKAEOT2 

 TION TON IAION ETEPTETHN AAMAPMENI 

 AA3 STPATHmN EIIEMEAH0H. 



This inscription occurs also in Reinesius, CI. iv. n. 120. Van Dale, 

 Diss. 295., transcribes it, but he omits the £ in the word EYPYKAEOYZ. 

 The form EIIIMEAH0ENTO£ TOY STPATHrOY occurs in many in- 

 scriptions. For the meaning of STPATHroS, see Van Dale, Diss. 41 6. 



XVIII. 



Copied at Sunium. " On a fallen stone of the architrave of the 

 temple of Minerva, some Greek had inscribed a short testimony to 

 the memory of his sister." Hunt's Journal. 



ONHCIMOC 

 EMNHC0H 

 THC AAEA$HC 

 XPHCTHC 



Similar inscriptions, written by persons visiting temples or cele- 

 brated places, and commemorating their friends and relatives, are not 

 uncommon. In Egypt we find on the Memnonium the following 

 words ; — 



HAIOA&P03 ZHNIi 

 NOS KAISAPEIAS nA 

 N1AA02 HKOY2A A KAI 

 EMNHS0HN ZHNI2N02 

 KAI AIANOT AAEA3&N. 



D'Orville, Charit. ii. 533. proposes in the last line, yuiavov, or diXiauov: 

 " I heard four times (the vocal statue), and remembered my brothers 

 Zeno, iElianus." 



We may transcribe in this place part of another inscription on the 



