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SYLLEUM. 



addition of the following sprinkled here and 

 there.* 



" Unfortunately, either the priests while the 

 building was a church, or, as Mr. Fellows would 

 say, 6 some later people,' who converted the 

 whole structure, as well as the adjoining middle- 

 age masonry, into a fortress, thought the original 

 incision for the bolts and bars not sufficient, 

 and have cut a square hole towards the end of 

 the lines near the bottom of the inscription, 

 while the weather has damaged the rest of the 

 stone along the whole right side of it ; so that, 

 although there are several words quite perfect, 

 there is no one line thoroughly so. Without 

 more time than I, with the object I had in view, 

 could give, it could not be made out. I cannot 

 think this place Tsioncla ; but from the extent of 

 its ecclesiastical buildings (v. Leake), and from 

 the absence of any strong city in the neighbour- 

 hood with such buildings, I cannot but think 

 that it was Sylleum.** There is not a single 



* They are not given in the letter. 



t That Mr. Daniell was right in determining these remark- 

 able ruins to be the site of Sylleum, and not of Isionda, there 

 can scarcely be a question. Their situation at the opposite 

 side of the Cestrus to Perge, their distance from the sea, their 

 great strength, and their conspicuous position on a high hill, 



