EVIDENCE OF SITE. 11 



acropolis, and filled with oleanders and chaste- 

 trees. In this gloomy depth are many very 

 perfect and beautiful rock-tombs, hewn in imi- 

 tation of wooden buildings, and bearing on their 

 ledges carved and painted Lycian inscriptions. On 

 the front of the same ridge of rock, in that part 

 facing the valley, are still larger and finer rock- 

 tombs, some of which Uruk families had adopted 

 as their winter habitations. Some of these are 

 temple tombs, with sculptured pediments ; and 

 on one are the curious representations of the 

 walls and buildings of an ancient city, figured 

 by Fellows.* This tomb is now much in- 

 jured by the fires lighted in its interior by the 

 Uruks. 



We returned to our village from the city 

 of King Pandarus greatly delighted with our 

 first visit, and convinced that we had seen but 

 a fraction of its wonders. The site is known 

 to be Pinara from inscriptions,! from its situation 

 exactly agreeing with the accounts given by 

 ancient geographers, and from the ancient name 



* Casts of these are now in the British Museum, forming- 

 part of a most interesting collection brought from Lycia by 

 the expedition of 1843-44. 



t Fellows's Lycia. Appendix A. Inscriptions, Nos. 142, 144. 



