ON LYCIAN INSCRIPTIONS. 



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the first lines are incomplete, and perhaps that 

 the others are also ; but as there is a great dif- 

 ference in the length of the two Greek lines, 

 it is not easy to say how much is wanting. 



Professor Grotefend has not perceived that the 

 inscription is imperfect, and has endeavoured 

 to fit the Lycian and Greek words together 

 in a very unsatisfactory manner, having altered 

 the alphabet to find the name Iktasla in the first 

 word of the second line of the Lycian, which 

 is in reality the name of Iktasla's father. The 

 attention of Sir C. Fellows has been called to 

 this inscription, and he may possibly succeed in 

 discovering the remainder ; in the meantime we 

 must make the best we can of it in its present 

 state. 



The Greek runs thus : — 



lKTacr\a AvTi^eWirrjg tovt(o) to juvr)fia rjpyaaero aura) rt 

 Kat yvvaiKL Kai tekvoiq : eav ()e rig a^iKrjtrr] rj ay opcMrrj to 

 IxvriiAa rjXtjrw avrov nrirv. 



The only words open to doubt are the last 

 three, which the professor explains as riXirt avrov 

 z<7nr{inio)v + , which is not confirmed by our fresh 

 C( W » y et the meaning he has thus given to the 

 sentence is in every probability correct, that 

 whoever violates or sells the tomb is to be fined* 



