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no animal carved on that panel. On the panels 

 beneath the tomb are carved dogs, and there are 

 also traces of others on the pediment. Pegasus 

 is a Persian horse, having a topknot and knotted 

 tail. A saddle-cloth of ornamental character 

 has been painted on his back. The group of 

 figures appears to have been originally painted. 

 The head-dress of Bellerophon is very peculiar, 

 as also the arrangement of the beard. The eye 

 is rather full and Greek. There is no inscrip- 

 tion on the tomb. A few feet from it, on a level 

 with the pediment, is a Lycian inscription in 

 a panel on the rock, the characters of which are 

 much larger than any we have met with else- 

 where. Two other Lycian inscriptions occurred 

 at Tlos: one on a tomb on the opposite hill, 

 and another on one near the base of the acro- 

 polis hill. None of these had been previously 

 noticed. 



In a field at some distance, we discovered a 

 quadrangular pedestal, or perhaps top of a tomb, 

 on one side of which is a representation of Tlos 

 itself during a siege. In this curious view, we 

 recognised the disposition of the walls on the 

 acropolis, and of the more remarkable tombs as 

 they are still to be seen. In the other compart- 



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