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lines, he has tried to find the Lycian correspond- 

 ing to iKraaXa (the owner of the tomb) in the 

 name of that person's father, and to bring these 

 names together, he has changed the value of 

 several of the Lycian letters. But all the rea- 

 soning built upon this foundation falls to the 

 ground when it is shown that the name corre- 

 sponding to Iktasla is lost at the end of the first 

 line of the inscription. 



The correction proposed by the professor, in 

 which the author concurs, consists in regarding 

 BB as equivalent to the Greek fl, which mate- 

 rially simplifies the alphabet. We may carry 

 this farther, and consider eiscfc as also equivalent 

 to X2. The difference between these letters when 

 single is so slight as not easily to be appreciated, 

 but when doubled they are constantly inter- 

 changed. 



The author had been led into the error of con- 

 sidering + as nearly equivalent to the two last- 

 mentioned letters by Sir C. Fellows's version of 

 the bilingual inscription at Limyra, but the 

 present more correct copy destroys the source 

 of the mistake. 



The principal difficulty in the Lycian alphabet 

 still consists in the letters related to U, which, 



