80 ACROTERIUM? 



The ruins within appeared of a more insignificant 

 character, and are difficult to be examined amid 

 the thicket of brushwood overgrowing them. In 

 the centre was a broken sarcophagus. Judging 

 from some traces of sculpture, and the style of 

 the architecture, it appears to be one of the few 

 found in the country dating with the earliest 

 Rock-Tombs and those bearing Lycian inscrip- 

 tions. Whilst we were examining the fortress, 

 Mr. Daniell was engaged in copying a long in- 

 scription from a sarcophagus, which stands on 

 the slope of the hill without the walls; near 

 it were two or three others fallen from their 

 basements and broken. This inscription was the 

 first we had met with which mentioned the 

 name of Phellus, the owner of the tomb being 

 a native of that city. From this discovery we 

 were at first led to suppose that these ruins 

 were either the ruins of Phellus, or of its port, 

 which with Antiphellus is stated to have been 

 opposite to Megiste. We are now of opinion 

 that it is the Acroterium mentioned in the Stadi- 

 asmus : its lofty situation on the summit of a 

 cliff above the coast, is also applicable to its 

 name. But it does not agree with the distance 

 there given, namely, fifty stadia from Anti- 



