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The first word in each, Esedeplumeye, appears 

 to be a possessive adjective formed from Esede- 

 plume, which we find in the inscription of Plate 

 36 of Sir C. Fellows's " Lycia" as the name of 

 the owner of a tomb at Limyra. So, in Nos. 27 

 and 28, from the name Eyamara we have the 

 adjective Eyamaraye as a possessive. 



meyadu does not occur again. We get an 

 approach to the meaning of the sentence if we 

 suppose it to mean family. 



tese meite and tese have been already trans- 

 lated herein, which may do in these sentences, 

 although it does not give us a very neat trans- 

 lation. Professor Grotefend gives another mean- 

 ing to these words in the memoir already quoted, 

 p. 297. He translates the common phrase, 



se eye itadu tese meite, 

 welcher Frevel iibet hiergegen. 



This translation has been overturned by our find- 

 ing itatit rendered in Greek by /uvviua, p. 224 ; 

 and the inscriptions now under consideration 

 would not bear the meaning which he gives to 

 tese meite. 



afaue is evidently the verb. It is applied both 

 to the owner of the tomb and to the transgres- 

 sor ; its meaning must therefore be to bury, to 



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