ON LYCIAN INSCRIPTIONS. 241 



No. 9. At Limy r a. 



opreuela : : kerou : tedeeme : unu. perekleue 



We find nearly the same name in an inscrip- 

 tion copied at Pinara by Sir C. Fellows ("Lycia," 

 Plate 30, No. 11), Orewella forming Orewellaua 

 in the dative. 



A letter has been altered in the last word to 

 bring it to Perekleue, which seems to be the gentile 

 name of Perecle, a town of which we have several 

 coins. The first found, had lost the first letter, and 

 reading the name as Erecle, the author proposed 

 to refer them to Heraclea; but several perfect 

 coins have been since found, which leave no 

 doubt that the name is really Perecle ; one of 

 them is figured in the Appendix to Sir C. Fel- 

 lows's "Lycia," p. 465, No. 31. Mr. Birch has 

 conjectured that the legend on these coins is the 

 name of Pericles, a king of Lycia mentioned by 

 Theopompus (lib. 12 in Photii Biblioth. cod. 

 176). But this opinion can hardly be main- 

 tained, as all the Lycian coins appear struck in 

 the names of the towns. We shall meet with 

 other names ending in ue or ue, which are proba- 

 bly also gentile forms. The derivatives of Perecle 

 occur in several inscriptions found at or near 



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