44 EVIDENCE FROM THE MONUMENTS. 



satrap is represented seated under an umbrella, 

 apparently to receive a deputation from the in- 

 habitants. Our subsequent research through the 

 country tended materially to strengthen this 

 opinion, since it made us better acquainted 

 with the district to which these monuments and 

 inscriptions are confined, and especially show- 

 ed, that if they belonged to the Termilians 

 who were settled in the country before the 

 arrival of the Cretan and Athenian colonies, that 

 people did not continue, in the strongholds to 

 which they retired, the custom of sculpturing 

 inscriptions on their tombs and on the rocks, 

 for in the territory of the Solymi, as we 

 have shown in our narrative, no such evidences 

 exist. These facts induced us to give publicity 

 to our views in a letter written in the island 

 of Rhodes at the conclusion of our tour, and pub- 

 lished in the Athenaeum. 



If we further inquire into the history of the 

 country subsequent to Herodotus, we find, that 

 " the Lycians remained under the government of 

 the Persians until its conquest by Alexander, for 

 Thucydides makes no mention of their having 

 taken a part in the Peloponessian war." (Sharpe 

 p. 438, Cramer.) 



